NASA will participate in two heliophysical missions that can give us the data needed to better understand solar winds and explosions or space weather as a whole. The agency has officially announced its participation in the Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon Mission (EUVST) and the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) program. They were two of three space weather-related proposals that NASA selected in September 2019 to receive $ 400,000 for a nine-month mission concept study.
EUVST is a solar telescope project that will more closely examine how the sun’s atmosphere releases solar winds and spews out solar materials, which affect radiation levels in space. The project, slated for launch in 2026, is led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), but NASA will put $ 55 million into the mission. His contributions include hardware such as UV detectors, auxiliary electronics, spectrograph components and a guide telescope.