Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #13-6 2013 February 10 at 7:28 p.m. MST (2013 February 11 0228 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For February 4-10 No space weather storms were observed during the period. Outlook For February 11-17 No space weather storms are expected during the period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the Intern ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 674 2013 Feb 1 Somerville, MA USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station ---------------------------- Expedition 34 is underway with commander Kevin Ford and flight engineers FE-1 Oleg Novitskiy, FE-2 Yevgeniy Tarelkin, FE-4 Roman Romanenko, FE-5 Chris Hadfield, and FE-6 Tom Marshburn. Ferry ship Soyuz TMA-06M is docked at the Poisk module; Soyuz TMA-07M is at Rassvet; ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Feb 11 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 42 Issued at 0030Z on 11 Feb 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1665 N10W93 239 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1667 N22W50 197 0060 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1670 N17W14 ...Continue Reading

February 6, 2013 The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the KNMI Scatterometer Team. Please direct all related inquiries to scat@knmi.nl. Dear wind product user, The OSI SAF ASCAT winds have been unavailable between 1:45 and 5:09 UTC sensing time due to an issue with the KNMI EUMETCast reception station. Best regards, Anton Verhoef KNMI Scatterometer Team http://www.knmi.nl/scatterometer/ For global wind products: EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Feb 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 41 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Feb 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1665 N11W81 241 0080 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1667 N23W37 197 0070 Cso 06 02 Beta 1670 N19W01 ...Continue Reading

Feb. 9, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Guy Webster Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-6278 guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-044 NASA CURIOSITY ROVER COLLECTS FIRST MARTIAN BEDROCK SAMPLE PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first ti ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Feb 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 40 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Feb 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Feb I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1665 N13W72 244 0120 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1667 N23W25 197 0080 Cso 06 04 Beta 1669 N07E11 ...Continue Reading

Feb. 08, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Dan Huot Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 daniel.g.huot@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C13-009 NASA AWARDS ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE CONTRACT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn., for an engineering, technology and science contract at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The cost-plus-award-fee services contract has a potential value of $1.93 bill ...Continue Reading

Feb. 08, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Dewayne Washington Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0040 dewayne.a.washington@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-046 NASA'S REFUELING DEMONSTRATION PROVES VIABILITY OF SATELLITE-SERVICING TECHNOLOGIES WASHINGTON -- NASA has demonstrated robotic fluid transfer in space, an objective that will help inform the development of robotic technology to refuel satellites. The first-of-its-kind demonstration was p ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM IN THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS In early February 2013, a dust storm arose in the Atlas Mountains along the border between Morocco and Algeria. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=80379&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Feb 06, 2013 (Posted on Feb 07, 2013 4:09 PM) ----------------------------- ...Continue Reading