NASA Announces Lepri Will Serve as SunRISE Mission Lead
Dr. Sue Lepri, who works at the University of Michigan Department of Climate and Space, will step up to the role of Principal Investigator for the SunRISE Mission.
In June, NASA announced that Professor Sue Lepri, Ph.D., who works as the director of the Space Physics Research Laboratory and a professor at the University of Michigan Department of Climate and Space and Engineering, is taking over as the Principal Investigator of the SunRISE Mission, or the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment.
SunRISE is an array of six small CubeSats that will work together to study solar activity, observing low radio frequency emissions to help scientists better understand how the Sun is able to generate intense space weather storms. These storms, known as solar particle storms, can pose hazards to spacecraft and astronauts. The NASA mission is slated to launch no earlier than September 2025.
NASA announced the news on their blog. Read more: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/sunrise/2025/06/05/nasas-sunrise-mission-reviewing-launch-date-names-new-science-lead/