The device will analyze with unprecedented precision how the sun's outbursts change Earth's upper atmosphere.
, which includes ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who will oversee the space weather probe's installation.The ISS bound Multi-Needle Langmuir Probe will be placed on the Bartolomeo platform, located outside the European Columbus module.
Versions of the Multi-Needle Langmuir Probe experiment, created by the University of Oslo, Norway, and Eidsvoll Electronics from Norway, have journeyed to space before.
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