﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--RSS Genrated: Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:13:51 GMT--><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:ev="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/event/"><channel><title>ICON - Ionospheric Connection Explorer</title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu:443/News/Press-Releases/rss/1403</link><atom:link href="https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu:443/News/Press-Releases/rss/1403" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><description>RSS document</description><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Thomas Immel]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[NASA’s ICON Mission Ends with Several Ionospheric Breakthroughs]]></title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/nasas-icon-mission-ends-with-several-ionospheric-breakthroughs</link><description><![CDATA[ There is an  article on the NASA website  summarizing ICON's ionospheric discoveries. After the disappointing loss of the observatory in its first extended mission, it is great to have this ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:19:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/nasas-icon-mission-ends-with-several-ionospheric-breakthroughs</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[857bb242-ad55-4b91-b8b6-4774481902d2-386]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karin Hauck]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Strong Winds Power Electric Fields in the Upper Atmosphere, NASA’s ICON Finds]]></title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/strong-winds-power-electric-fields-in-the-upper-atmosphere-nasas-icon-finds</link><description><![CDATA[ [ NASA Feature  by Lina Tran on Nov 29 2021] 

 What happens on Earth doesn’t stay on Earth. 

 Using observations from NASA’s  ICON  mission, scientists presented the first direct measurements ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 19:41:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/strong-winds-power-electric-fields-in-the-upper-atmosphere-nasas-icon-finds</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[857bb242-ad55-4b91-b8b6-4774481902d2-82]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karin Hauck]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[First ICON Science Data Released to Public]]></title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/first-icon-science-data-released-to-public</link><description><![CDATA[  <a href="http:// On June 22, NASA’s ICON team released scientific data collected during the spacecraft’s first eight months in orbit to the public.    The data release features observations from ...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:36:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/first-icon-science-data-released-to-public</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[857bb242-ad55-4b91-b8b6-4774481902d2-65]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karin Hauck]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[ICON Co-Investigator Siegmund Wins the 2020 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation]]></title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/icon-co-investigator-siegmund-wins-the-2020-joseph-weber-award-for-astronomical-instrumentation</link><description><![CDATA[
 The   2020 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical ...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 02:32:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/icon-co-investigator-siegmund-wins-the-2020-joseph-weber-award-for-astronomical-instrumentation</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[857bb242-ad55-4b91-b8b6-4774481902d2-62]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karin Hauck]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Postcards from the Edge of Space: Scientists Present New Ionosphere Images and Science at AGU]]></title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/postcards-from-the-edge-of-space-scientists-present-new-ionosphere-images-and-science-at-agu</link><description><![CDATA[ [See original post  NASA Feature  by Lina Tran] In a Dec. 10 press event at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, three scientists presented new images of the ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2019 22:06:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/postcards-from-the-edge-of-space-scientists-present-new-ionosphere-images-and-science-at-agu</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[857bb242-ad55-4b91-b8b6-4774481902d2-60]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karin Hauck]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[ICON’s mission to the ionosphere begins with beautiful fall launch]]></title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/icons-mission-to-the-ionosphere-begins-with-beautiful-fall-launch</link><description><![CDATA[ [ Robert Sanders, Berkeley News, October 10, 2019 ] At 9:59 p.m. EDT this evening, Thursday, Oct. 10, NASA launched the Ionospheric Connection, or ICON, mission, putting into orbit a satellite built ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/icons-mission-to-the-ionosphere-begins-with-beautiful-fall-launch</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[857bb242-ad55-4b91-b8b6-4774481902d2-56]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karin Hauck]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[NASA Spacecraft Launches on Mission to Explore Frontier of Space]]></title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/nasa-spacecraft-launches-on-mission-to-explore-frontier-of-space</link><description><![CDATA[ After successfully launching Thursday night, NASA’s ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/nasa-spacecraft-launches-on-mission-to-explore-frontier-of-space</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[857bb242-ad55-4b91-b8b6-4774481902d2-55]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karin Hauck]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[June 14 launch of ICON satellite to probe the edge of space]]></title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/june-14-launch-of-icon-satellite-to-probe-the-edge-of-space</link><description><![CDATA[ By  Robert Sanders , UC Berkeley Media relations | June 1, 2018 
 ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/june-14-launch-of-icon-satellite-to-probe-the-edge-of-space</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[857bb242-ad55-4b91-b8b6-4774481902d2-38]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karin Hauck]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Two NASA satellites slated for 2017 launch will focus on edge of space]]></title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/two-nasa-satellites-slated-for-2017-launch-will-focus-on-edge-of-space</link><description><![CDATA[   - Robert Sanders, Berkeley News.    Scientists at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory are preparing for the 2017 launch of an Earth-orbiting satellite to discover how storms in the atmosphere ...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 03:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/two-nasa-satellites-slated-for-2017-launch-will-focus-on-edge-of-space</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[857bb242-ad55-4b91-b8b6-4774481902d2-25]]></dc:identifier></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Claire Raftery]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[El Niño has effects all the way to the edge of the atmosphere.]]></title><link>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/el-ni241o-has-effects-all-the-way-to-the-edge-of-the-atmosphere</link><description><![CDATA[-- December 16, 2015 
 
The warm El Niño conditions affecting weather around the Pacific Ocean are also affecting conditions in space, according to University of California, Berkeley scientists. 
 ...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://icon.ssl.berkeley.edu/News/Press-Releases/el-ni241o-has-effects-all-the-way-to-the-edge-of-the-atmosphere</guid><dc:identifier><![CDATA[857bb242-ad55-4b91-b8b6-4774481902d2-14]]></dc:identifier></item></channel></rss>