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Motions in the Sun reveal inner workings of sunspot cycle
The Sun's magnetic activity follows an eleven-year cycle. Over the course of a solar cycle, the Sun's magnetic activity comes and goes.
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Ball Aerospace to build NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 spacecraft
On behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has awarded a delivery order under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III) contract to Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp.
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Watch a 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA’s SDO
As of June 2020, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory - SDO - has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade.
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JinkoSolar to supply 60MW for first industrial hybrid plant in Chile
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd reports that it will supply 60.9 MW of bifacial modules for the first industrial hybrid plant in Chile.
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JA Solar Supplies Solar Modules for an 110MW PV Project in Kansai, Japan
JA Solar announced recently that it has won the order to supply Mono PERC MBB modules for the 110MW photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Kansai, Japan, which is the largest single PV project in the country so far.
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China’s large solar telescope ready for space weather forecasts
A Chinese large solar telescope has recently captured images of the sun's surface with details, indicating that this optical instrument can detect solar storm warnings, said scientists.
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Canadian Solar Signed Two Corporate PPAs for 274 MWp Solar Power Projects in Brazil
Canadian Solar Inc. told SolarDaily that it recently signed two private power purchase agreements ("PPA") with Braskem S.A.
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TRACERS Heliospherics mission enters Phase B
NASA has approved the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission to proceed to Phase B, which marks the transition from concept study to preliminary flight design.
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Utility solar restoration partnership gets plants back online after extreme weather
Solar Support, DEPCOM Power Inc., (DEPCOM) and Power Factor have partnered to expand the capabilities of its extreme weather restoration and recovery program.
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Trina Solar unveils TrinaPro Mega, an ultra-high-power smart PV solution
Trina Solar Co., Ltd., a leading global PV and smart energy total solution provider, announced the global launch of TrinaPro Mega, an ultra-high power smart PV solution featuring modules with power output exceeding 500W.
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‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse thrills skywatchers on longest day
Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and the Far East witnessed a dramatic "ring of fire" solar eclipse Sunday.
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New 100MW Solar Power Plant opens in Kagoshima
GF Corporation, Kyocera Corporation, Kyudenko Corporation, and Tokyo Century Corporation announced that Kanoya Osaki Solar Hills LLC, a solar power venture…
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Meyer Burger Technology to become solar cell module maker
Meyer Burger Technology Ltd aims to transform itself from a supplier of production equipment to a technologically leading manufacturer of solar cells and modules.
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CS Energy announces completion of the largest landfill solar-plus-storage project in Massachusetts
CS Energy, LLC, a leading integrated energy firm that designs and builds optimized projects in the solar, storage and emerging energy industries, announced its…
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Vapor fix lifts up perovskite crystal performance
A simple and noninvasive treatment could become a prime post-crystallization process to optimize the optoelectronic properties of hybrid perovskite solar cell materials.
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KU Leuven researchers shed new light on solar flares
Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the physical processes that occur during a solar flare.