Index

Accidents: crashes; explosions

Anomalies: aviation; discharges; satellite; SEU

 

Blackouts: costs; electrical; radio; rarity; sags

 

Carbon-14

Cell phones

Coincidences

Coronal mass ejection: April 1997; density; forecasting; impacts; warning

Corrosion: pipeline

Currents: auroral; ground-induced; magnetism; pipelines

 

Disasters: costs; human causes

 

Electrical discharge

Electrical outage: California 1996; Chicago 1997; Foxboro Stadium; Geneva 1903; March 1940; Maryland 1999; November 1965; Quebec 1989

Electrical power: availability; currents; grids; ground-induced currents; supply

Electrojet current

Electronics, off-the-shelf

 

Fiber optics: cables; growth; satellites

Forecasting: costs; flares; geomagnetic storms; history; modeling; Nowcasts; Powercast; power consumption; programs; Sunburst

 

Garage doors

Gas pipeline: corrosion; Urals

GEO orbits; internet usage

Great Aurora: April 1981; April 1997; April 2000; August 1972; February 1872; February 1907; February 1956; January 1938; January 1997; March 1940; March 1989; November 1848; November; 1882; September 1859; September 1909; September 1941

 

Kp index: defined; examples

 

LEO orbits

 

Magnetic: bacteria; compass; field; observatories; storms

Magnetometers: ground networks satellite

MEO orbits

Microchip: production problems

 

NASA: budgets; CDAWeb; Living with a Star; MO&DA; NSSDC; Roadmap

Navigation: accidents; bacteria; Exxon Valdez; human; LORAN-C; pigeons; satellites; whales

 

Polar fountain

 

Radiation: airlines; astronaut; cosmic-ray; dosages; hardening; lethal; Mars trip; measurement; MIR; natural; sickness; types

Radio interference: international programming; shortwave

Radio service

RAM

Replacement power, rates

 

Satellite: failures; industry; insurance; science

Satellite anomalies

Satellite flipping orientation

Satellite investing

Satellite lost orbits

Satellite networks: Astrolink; Ellipso; Globalstar; Iridium; Orbcomm; Skybridge; Spaceway; Teledesic

Satellite population

Satellite repointing

Satellites, individual: ACE; AMSC-1; Anik; APEX; DBS-1; Dynamics Explorer; Explorer 1; Galaxy IV; Galaxy-7; Geotail; GOES; HELIOS; IMAGE; IMP-8; Intelsat-K; ISEE-3; ISTP; Koreasat-1; Marecs-1; OSO-7; POLAR; SMEI; SOHO; STEREO; Syncom 3; TDRSS-1; Teledesic T1; Telstar-1; Telstar 401; TRACE; Triana; Tempo-2; WIND

Satellite service

Satellite tumbling

Satellite voltages

Shielding: atmospheric; satellite; space shuttle

Solar: cells; Cycle 17; Cycle 19; Cycle 20; Cycle 22; flare; protons; superflares; wind

Solar Cycle 23: Adeos satellite; coronal mass ejections; date; Equator-S; ETS-7; forecasting; Galaxy IV; Galaxy VII; GOES-8; Insat-1C; Insat-2D; Insat-2E; Iridium satellites; maximum; NEAR; POLAR; progress; severity; sunspots; Telstar 401; Tempo-2

Solar storms: April 1997; January

Space Shuttle: flashing lights; pressure anomaly

Space Station: orbit; radiation exposure; spacewalks

 

Telegraph: interference; voltages

Telephone: interference; service

Television, interference

Transformer: explosion; heating; magnetostriction; overloading; replacement; tripping

 

Van Allen belts

Volt-Ampere Reactive