Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY BULLETIN #11- 4 2011 September 26 at 03:00 p.m. MDT (2011 September 26 2100 UTC) **** EARLY AUTUMN GEOMAGNETIC STORM **** A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that erupted from NOAA Active Region 1302 on Saturday September 24 in conjunction with an M7 strength solar flare, arrived this morning at 1237 UT (8:37am Eastern Time). It has kicked off moderate (G2) geomagnetic storms for low la ...Continue Reading

Sept. 26, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-206 NASA TO HOST NEWS CONFERENCE ON ASTEROID SEARCH FINDINGS WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on Thurs., Sept. 29, to reveal near-Earth asteroid findings and implications for future research. The briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters James E. Webb Auditorium ...Continue Reading

Sept. 26, 2011 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-041 NASA AWARDS ARCHITECTURAL CONTRACT FOR BRIDGE WORK AT KENNEDY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected FIGG Bridge Engineers Inc. of Tallahassee, Fla., to provide architect engineer studies, designs and other professional services required f ...Continue Reading

Sept. 26, 2011 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-040 NASA AWARDS ARCHITECTURAL CONTRACT FOR NEW COMPLEX AT KENNEDY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA has selected Hunton Brady Architects, P.A. of Orlando, Fla., to provide design, engineering, and other professional services required to develop a Cen ...Continue Reading

Sept. 26, 2011 Sarah DeWitt Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2451 sarah.l.dewitt@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-323 NASA SCIENTISTS RECEIVE PRESIDENTIAL EARLY CAREER AWARDS WASHINGTON -- President Obama has named four NASA scientists as recipients of the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The NASA recipients and 90 other federal researchers will receive their awards in a ceremony on October 14 in Washington. The PECASE awards represent the highest honor bestowed by the ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN AUSTRALIA Fires burned throughout northern Australia during September 2011 at the end of the dry winter season. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=52278&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 26, 2011 (Posted on Sep 26, 2011 12:54 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURRICANE HILARY ...Continue Reading

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, A Metop out of plane manoeuvre is planned for 28 and 29 September, see http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/UNS/webapps/showData.do?type=28. The ASCAT instrument will be left on nominal measurement mode during the manoeuvre, but the dissemination of all ASCAT products will be discontinued around the manoeuvre times. The manoeuvre will ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 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 269 Issued at 0030Z on 26 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1295 N25W98 054 0180 Hsx 05 01 Alpha 1301 N18W13 329 0090 Esi 15 18 Beta 1302 N12E36 ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 647 2011 Sep 25 Somerville, MA, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UARS ---- NASA's UARS satellite reentered on Sep 24. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite was deployed in 1991 from the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-48. UARS studied the depletion of the ozone layer, confirming that CFCs cause the `ozone hole', and improved models of upper atmosphere chemistry, including studies of methane i ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 25 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 268 Issued at 0030Z on 25 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1295 N26W84 054 0500 Ekc 11 07 Beta-Gamma 1301 N18W01 330 0090 Fso 16 16 Beta 1302 N ...Continue Reading