May 18, 2022 *First Female Chief Flight Director to Join NASA’s Gateway Leadership* holly_ridings.jpg Holly Ridings, the first female chief of NASA’s flight directors, will help lead the agency’s Gateway Program to establish humanity’s first space station around the Moon. */Credits: NASA/* RELEASE: J22-009 First Female Chief Flight Director to Join NASA’s Gateway Leadership Holly Ridings, the first female chief of NASA’s flight directors, will now help lead the agency’s Gateway Program, an international partners ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2022 May 18 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 138 Issued at 0030Z on 18 May 2022 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3007 S23W48 184 0170 Esi 13 18 Beta 3010 S15E10 126 0060 Cso 15 19 Beta 3011 N18E08 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (17 May 2022) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/topic/image-of-the-day * Persistent Dust Storms Batter Iraq https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149838/persistent-dust-storms-batter-iraq/?src=eoa-iotd * Submarine Eruption of Kavachi Volcano https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149834/submarine-eruption-of-kavachi-volcano/?src=eoa-iotd * Maui's Iconic Waves https://earthobser ...Continue Reading

May 17, 2022 CONTRACT RELEASE C22-010*NASA Awards Contract for Cybersecurity, Privacy Enterprise Solutions* nasa-logo-web-rgb.jpg *//* NASA has awarded the Cybersecurity and Privacy Enterprise Solutions and Services (CyPrESS) contract to Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, Virginia. CyPrESS is a cost plus award fee core and hybrid indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a total potential value of $622.5 million. The period of performance includes a base period that begins May 31, 2022, and runs throu ...Continue Reading

May 17, 2022 RELEASE 22-044*NASA Seeks Input on Moon to Mars Objectives, Comments Due May 31* As NASA moves forward with plans to send astronauts to the Moon under Artemis missions to prepare for human exploration of Mars, the agency is calling on U.S. industry, academia, international communities, and other stakeholders to provide input on its deep space exploration objectives.  NASA released a draft set of high-level objectives Tuesday, May 17, identifying 50 points falling under four over ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2022 May 17 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 137 Issued at 0030Z on 17 May 2022 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3007 S23W35 184 0320 Ekc 14 36 Beta 3010 S16E24 125 0100 Cso 14 23 Beta 3011 N16E25 ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #22-20 2022 May 15 at 8:36 p.m. MDT (2022 May 16 0236 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For May 9-15 R1 (Minor) radio blackouts were observed on 11-12 May and 14 May. R3 (Strong) radio blackouts were observed on 10 May. No other space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For May 16-22 No space weather storms are expected during th ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2022 May 15 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 135 Issued at 0030Z on 15 May 2022 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3006 S31W59 235 0010 Bxo 07 08 Beta 3007 S24W08 184 0340 Ekc 12 30 Beta 3010 S15E48 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2022 May 13 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 133 Issued at 0030Z on 13 May 2022 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3006 S31W33 235 0140 Eao 14 20 Beta 3007 S24E18 184 0350 Ekc 15 30 Beta-Gamma-Delta 30 ...Continue Reading

Thursday, May 12, 2022 NOAA STAR has announced that the NOAA GHRSST Level-2 and Level-3 VIIRS SST v2.61 datasets (DOI: 10.5067/GHV20-2PO61, 10.5067/GHVRS-2PO61, 10.5067/GHVRS-3UO61, and 10.5067/GHV20-3UO61) will be discontinued by the end of May 2022. Users who are currently using these datasets, please switch to the VIIRS v2.80 datasets (DOI: 10.5067/GHVRS-2PO28, 10.5067/GHV20-2PO28, 10.5067/GHVRS-3UO28, 10.5067/GHV20-2PO28). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- User Servi ...Continue Reading