September 20, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-116*NASA TV to Air Landsat 9 Launch, Prelaunch Activities* NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the Landsat 9 satellite, a joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mission that will continue the legacy of monitoring Earth’s land and coastal regions that began with the first Landsat satellite in 1972. Landsat 9 is scheduled to launch at 2:11 p.m. EDT (11:11 a.m. PDT) Monday, Sept. 27, on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 ro ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #21-41 2021 September 19 at 6:43 p.m. MDT (2021 September 20 0043 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For September 13-19 G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm conditions were observed on 17 Sep due to CME effects. No other space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For September 20-26 No space weather storms are expected to occur during th ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Sep 20 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 263 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Sep 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2871 S28E61 359 0060 Dao 03 03 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 19/ ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 797 2021 Sep 18 Somerville, MA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 65 continues. Cargo Dragon capsule C208, with (as usual) a new trunk, was launched on mission SpX CRS-23 on Aug 29. The trunk is empty on this mission. The cabin carries 2207 kg of pressurized cargo including 45 kg of satellite deployment ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Sep 19 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 262 Issued at 0030Z on 19 Sep 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 18 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 18/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2871 S28E73 001 0030 Hsx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 18 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Sep 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 261 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Sep 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Sep Nmbr Location Lo 2870 ...Continue Reading

Friday, September 17, 2021 As detailed in the 12 July 2021 announcement, the PO.DAAC data archive is being migrated to the NASA Earthdata Cloud, hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). This transition to the cloud is taking place in several phases. In an effort to best support the users as they begin transitioning their workflows or data access points to a cloud-based process, PO.DAAC is making the existing datasets from its archive available from and within the Earthdata Cloud as soon as they are available. We are pl ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2021 FIRES IN AFRICA The vast continent of Africa tends to have two fire seasons: September to March in areas north of the Equator and April to August in areas to the south of it. * A Fast-Moving Fire in Kgalagadi (Image from Sep 8, 2021; Posted Sep 15, 2021) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148829/a-fast-moving-fire-in-kgalagadi/ ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 Sep 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 260 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Sep 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Sep Nmbr Location Lo 2870 ...Continue Reading

September 16, 2021 MEDIA ADVISORY M21-112*NASA to Announce Landing Site for Artemis Lunar Robotic Rover* viper_drilling_on_moon_copy.jpg Illustration of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the surface of the Moon */Credits: NASA/Daniel Rutter /* NASA will host a media teleconference Monday, Sept. 20, at 4 p.m. EDT, to announce the lunar landing site for the agency’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER). The rover will be delivered to the Moon's surface in ...Continue Reading