Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 3070 Issue Time: 2020 Oct 25 1402 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2020 Oct 25 1320 UTC Station: GOES16 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation 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 subscri ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Oct 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 299 Issued at 0030Z on 25 Oct 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2776 S14W70 166 0040 Hsx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 24 ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Oct 24 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 298 Issued at 0030Z on 24 Oct 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2776 S14W57 167 0060 Hsx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 23 ...Continue Reading

  October 23, 2020 RELEASE 20-106*NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid* OSIRIS-REx sample collector Captured by the spacecraft’s SamCam camera on Oct. 22, 2020, this series of three images shows that the sampler head on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is full of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. They show also that some of these particles are slowly escaping the sampler head. Analysis by the OSIRIS-REx team ...Continue Reading

  October 23, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-118*NASA Invites Media to Briefing on OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Collection*  Captured on Oct. 20, during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface. The sampling event brought the spacecraft all the way down to sample site Nightingale, and the team on Ear ...Continue Reading

  October 23, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-116*NASA Invites Media to Next SpaceX Space Station Cargo Launch* SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 11:50 p.m. EST on March 6, 2020, carrying the uncrewed cargo Dragon spacecraft on its journey to the International Space Station for NASA and SpaceX’s 20th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-20) mission. */Credits: NASA/Tony Gray and Tim Terry ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Oct 23 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 297 Issued at 0030Z on 23 Oct 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2776 S14W45 167 0060 Hsx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 22 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2020 FIRE SEASON IN THE WESTERN U.S. Fire season in the West can stretch from late spring until seasonal winter rains and snow arrive. * Record-Setting Fires in Colorado and California (Image from Oct 19, 2020; Posted Oct 21, 2020) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147443/record-setting-fires-in-colorado-and-california/?src=nha --- ...Continue Reading

  October 22, 2020 RELEASE 20-104*NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, Crewmates Land Safely Back on Earth* Chris Cassidy NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy is all smiles after returning from his third space mission Oct. 21, 2020, landing in Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 10:54 p.m. EDT with his International Space Station crewmates Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. */Credits: NASA Television/*  The Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Chris Cassi ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Oct 22 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 296 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Oct 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2776 S14W31 166 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 21 ...Continue Reading