Kipp & Zonen launches a new web application to provide people in Photovoltaics (PV) with a customized recommendation on solar irradiance measurement. The Configurator enables stakeholders of PV ...

After nearly two decades, the Sun has set for NASA's SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), a mission that continued and advanced the agency's 40-year record of measuring solar irradiance and ...

Solargis, a Slovakia-based solar data provider, claims that the difference between modeled solar irradiance and real measurements is more significant in tropical regions than in subtropical zones. It ...

Review of NOAA Working Group Report on Maintaining the Continuation of Long-Term Satellite Total Irradiance Observations evaluates NOAA's plan for mitigating the loss of total solar irradiance ...

Since July 2022, a miniature satellite about the size of a shoebox has been orbiting Earth and monitoring how much solar energy reaches the atmosphere. Now, scientists are finalizing their analysis of ...

Researchers at CU Boulder are playing a major role in the next phase of a more than four decades-long campaign to take the temperature of the sun. TSIS-2 joins a long line of NASA missions that have ...

A General Atomics business unit has secured a potential six-year, $32.9M contract to develop spacecraft NASA will use on a mission to measure solar energy input to Earth. The company’s electromagnetic ...

The recent total solar eclipse over Rochester provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity on Earth for two faculty-researchers and their students to capture data about the effects of the sun’s energy ...

We live on a solar-powered planet. As we wake up in the morning, the Sun peeks over the horizon to shed light on us, blanket us with warmth and provide cues to start our day. At the same time, our Sun ...

Teachers Tanya Wimer, Jim Granata and Frida Shroyer record solar irradiance measurements in front of the International Arctic Research Center on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. Thirty K-12 ...