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Airbus to build satellite that will predict the northern lights

The European Space Agency has hired Airbus to build a space satellite. It will forecast solar storms like the one that caused the biggest northern lights display in over 20 years this May. The satellite, dubbed Vigil, will sit at the so-called L5 point, some 150 million kilometres from Earth.

 

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