Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2059 Issue Time: 2013 Jul 27 1600 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2013 Jul 27 1545 UTC Station: GOES13 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or upda ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jul 27 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 208 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Jul 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1793 N21W81 195 0070 Cso 11 02 Beta 1800 S08W46 160 0160 Dai 08 12 Beta-Gamma 1801 N20 ...Continue Reading

July 26, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100jbuck@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-236 * * NASA Selects Eight Physical Science Research Proposals * WASHINGTON -- NASA's Physical Science Research Program will fund eight proposals to help investigate how complex fluids and macromolecules behave in microgravity. The investigations will be conducted aboard the International Space Station. These studies will result in new basic knowledge that provides a foundation on which other NASA resear ...Continue Reading

July 26, 2013 Sarah Ramsey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1694sarah.ramsey@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-238 * * NASA Sees Enthusiastic Response to Asteroid Call for Ideas * WASHINGTON -- NASA has received more than 400 responses to its request for information (RFI) on the agency's asteroid initiative, Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced Friday. "Under our plan, we're increasing the identification, tracking and exploration of asteroids, and the response to this initiative has been gratif ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jul 26 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 207 Issued at 0030Z on 26 Jul 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1793 N20W66 193 0100 Eso 12 02 Beta 1800 S09W32 159 0120 Dao 07 14 Beta-Gamma 1801 N20 ...Continue Reading

July 25, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-224 * * NASA's WISE Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets * WASHINGTON -- The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Are they asteroids or comets? A new study of observations fro ...Continue Reading

July 25, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Susan Hendrix Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-7745susan.m.hendrix@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-233 * * NASA Mission Discovers Particle Accelerator in Heart of Van Allen Radiation Belts * WASHINGTON -- Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged p ...Continue Reading

July 25, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Susan Hendrix Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-7745susan.m.hendrix@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-234 * * IRIS Mission Gets First Look at Sun's Mysterious Interface Region * WASHINGTON -- NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft has captured its first observations of a region of the sun that is now possible to observe in detail: the lowest layers of the sun's atmosphere. Th ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2058 Issue Time: 2013 Jul 25 1217 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2057 Begin Time: 2013 Jul 10 1655 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1910 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 49 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Tenth Parachute Test for NASA's Orion Adds 10,000 Feet of Success ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:12:42 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: Tenth Parachute Test for NASA's Orion Adds 10,000 Feet of Success July 24, 2013 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #13-231 Tenth Parachute Test f ...Continue Reading