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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Some missions in space complete their operations just after predicted, while others earn the Iron Man award for outlasting their primary mission. In the case of SORCE--a satellite designed to study solar storms--it's earned itself an Iron Man. Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), designed and built by the University of Colorado, is a NASA satellite that gives scientists a look at some of the most intense solar eruptions...

NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Locus Energy is preparing to launch a solar forecasting service based on its industry-leading Virtual Irradiance product. A beta preview of the new technology will be shown at the upcoming Solar Power International 2012 conference in Orlando, Florida. The forecasting service will be released initially as a short-term (0-6 hours) forecast tool capable of predicting solar irradiance and power across an entire install base or geographic region....

Two satellite instruments aboard NASA's Solar Radiation & Climate Experiment (SORCE) mission -- the Total Solar Irradiance Monitor (TIM) and the Solar Irradiance Monitor (SIM) -- have made daily measurements of the sun's brightness since 2003.The two instruments are part of an ongoing effort to monitor variations in solar output that could affect Earth's climate. Both instruments measure aspects of the sun's irradiance, the intensity of the radiation striking the top of the...