ACE, Soho, and other satellites are out there where the sun's bombardment with solar plasma effects are felt the most with relation to planet Earth.
Above is a giant radiodish type telescope in Puerto Rico, already used for 20 years for the SETI Project.
President of A Check Exact in Charlotte, NC, Dr. Bob Benchoff headed the team of Level III Consultants for Griffin Gear of SC & NY who took part in another similar radiodish in New Mexico, NM. Remarks Dr. Bob Benchoff "Above the center of the dish and difficult to see is a large gear used to direct the energy. To give you a proportional idea of the size, the one Griffin Gear made for NM is the largest gear in the world, so you can fathom just how large the dish is in relationship. We showed Griffin Gear how to turn marginal profits into a rich gold mine via state-of-the-art techniques incorporating magnetic fields, ultrasystems, and properly specifying for future standardized specification applications."
"Aside from SETI, some of the more worthwhile projects, in my opinion, are studies of immediate relevance to communications systems.", said Dr. Bob Benchoff.
As inventor of the stock ticker, Thomas Edison said, stocks have value, yet it is the information that has far greater value.
Above, this is where solar wind originates. Dark spots on the sun have low magnetic fields, freeing plasma to escape as illustrated below.
Many satellites are in near earth orbits, but some, such as ACE and SOHO are farther away, more toward the sun to intercept wave and plasma signals to warn the other satellites so communication signal adjustments can be immediately made.
In the above illustration of earth, the long straight lines represent plasma, the long wave lines represent signals, and the large arcing lines represent the earth's electromagnetic field while being pushed by the sun's energy.
A satellite as depicted above can be within the earth's magnetic field, but when a plasma wavefront hits, the satellite is immediately outside the earth's electromagnetic field, or stated more precisely, it becomes beyond typical significance of the field. (various sources).
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