{"id":894033,"date":"2026-04-14T19:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/894033\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:01:14","slug":"space-mystery-researchers-at-northumbria-university-secure-4m-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/894033\/","title":{"rendered":"Space mystery researchers at Northumbria University secure \u00a34m funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Researchers have been awarded \u00a34m to help solve &#8220;space radiation mysteries&#8221; which affect our satellites and space weather.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Northumbria University-led team is trying to understand why the Earth&#8217;s radiation belts behave so unpredictably, affecting thing such as GPS navigation, telecommunications and weather forecasting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The radiation belt environment has remained &#8220;frustratingly unpredictable&#8221; despite Nasa missions to understand it, lead researcher Prof Clare Watt said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over five years, researchers will combine spacecraft data with advanced computer modelling to help improve forecasting accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers have been awarded \u00a34m to help solve &#8220;space radiation mysteries&#8221; which affect our satellites and space weather.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-894033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116404610102626830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}