Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #24-24 2024 June 9 at 7:41 p.m. MDT (2024 June 10 0141 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For June 3-9 G2 (Moderate) storms were observed on 07 Jun. G1 (Minor) storms were observed on 03 Jun. R1 events were observed on 03-05 and 07-09 Jun. R2 events were observed on 06 and 08 Jun. S1 levels were observed on 08-09 Jun. S2 levels were observed on 08 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2024 Jun 10 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 162 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Jun 2024 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3697 S19W86 349 0270 Ekc 12 13 Beta-Gamma-Delta 3701 S06W83 347 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2024 Jun 09 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 161 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Jun 2024 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3697 S17W72 349 0360 Ekc 15 19 Beta-Gamma-Delta 3698 N22W82 359 ...Continue Reading

June 8, 2024 _ _ *NASA Administrator Remembers Apollo Astronaut Williams Anders* * * NASA astronaut William Anders   *RELEASE: 24-082*   The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the passing of Apollo astronaut Maj. Gen. (ret.) William “Bill” Anders, who passed away June 7, in San Juan Islands, Washington state, at the age of 90.   “In 1968, as a member of the Apollo 8 crew, as one of the first three people to travel beyond the reach of our Earth and orbit the Moon, ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2024 Jun 08 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 160 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Jun 2024 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3697 S17W58 348 0320 Dkc 10 19 Beta-Gamma-Delta 3698 N22W68 358 ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024   *ADVISORY: M24-079* * * *NASA Invites Media to Rollout Event for Artemis II Moon Rocket Stage * * * The core stage is the backbone of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will help power NASA’s Artemis II mission to send a crew of four astronauts around the Moon in 2025. Here, the core stage is currently behind scaffolding to allow work to continue at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The stage’s two massive propellant tanks hold a collective 733,000 gallons of liqui ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024   *CONTRACT RELEASE: C24-020* * * *NASA Selects Contractor for Lifecycle Services Support* * * NASA has selected Amentum Services Inc. of Chantilly, Virginia, to provide program, science, engineering, operations, and project management support at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.   The Fully Integrated Lifecycle Mission Support Services 2 contract is a single award, hybrid contract, consisting of cost-plus-fixed-fee core requirements and indefinite-del ...Continue Reading

June 7, 2024   *RELEASE: 24-081* * * *NASA Exploring Alternative Mars Sample Return Methods* * * * * * * NASA is moving forward with ten studies to examine more affordable and faster methods of bringing samples from Mars’ surface back to Earth as part of the agency’s Mars Sample Return Program. As part of this effort, NASA will award a firm-fixed-price contract for up to $1.5 million to conduct 90-day studies to seven industry proposers. Additionally, NASA centers, CalTech’s Jet Propulsion La ...Continue Reading

NASA Crew Flight Test Astronauts to Call White House, NASA Leaders *JUN 07, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-078* NASA astronauts Suni Williams (pictured left) and Butch Wilmore (pictured right) launched at 10:52 a.m. EDT June 5 as the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credits: NASA Following their safe arrival at the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore&n ...Continue Reading

Jun 7, 2024 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the version 5.3 SMAP Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) evaluation datasets from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and sponsored by the NASA Ocean Salinity Science Team. The SMAP satellite was launched on 31 January 2015 with a near-polar orbit at an inclination of 98 degrees and an altitude of 685 km. It has an ascending node time of 6 pm and is sun-synchronous. With its 1000 km swath, SMAP achieves global coverage in approximately 3 days, but has an exact orbit ...Continue Reading