Small NASA Satellite Could Reveal How Lightning Impacts Space Weather

NASA launches CANVAS CubeSat to study lightning’s impact on space weather

The 4U CubeSat is now in low Earth orbit, where it will track very-low-frequency radio waves generated by lightning and ground-based transmitters.

Small NASA Satellite Could Reveal How Lightning Impacts Space Weather

NASA’s CANVAS CubeSat will study very-low-frequency radio waves from lightning and human transmitters, tracking how energy moves through the ionosphere into the magnetosphere to improve space weather models and protect satellites.