:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Aug 08 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 221 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Aug 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2770 N23E22 024 0070 Cso 06 04 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 07/ ...Continue Reading

  August 07, 2020 MEDIA ADVISORY M20-092*NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station to Answer Girl Scouts’ Questions* Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy during the preparation of the Vection experiment. */Credits: NASA/* Girl Scouts from across the nation will pose questions next week to NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station. The educational downlink event will air live at 10:55 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 11, on NASA Television and the agency’s websit ...Continue Reading

  August 07, 2020 CONTRACT RELEASE C20-020*NASA Awards Contract for Consolidated Information Technology Services* NASA has selected ASRC Federal Data Solutions (AFDS) Inc. of Beltsville, Maryland, to receive a contract for Ames Consolidated Information Technology Services at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. This is a single award, hybrid contract consisting of cost-plus-fixed-fee contract line item numbers for core contract management services, core technical ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 3035 Issue Time: 2020 Aug 07 0653 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 3034 Begin Time: 2020 Aug 05 1010 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1974 pfu 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 Sub ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Aug 07 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 220 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Aug 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2770 N23E36 023 0070 Cso 06 04 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 06/ ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- A NEW ISLAND FORMS NEAR NISHINOSHIMA VOLCANO Volcanic activity along the western edge of the Pacific “Ring of Fire” gave rise to a tiny island in November 2013, and it has been expanding since then. Located in the Ogasawara Islands, part of the Volcano Islands arc, the new islet sits about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Tokyo. * No R ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 3034 Issue Time: 2020 Aug 06 0622 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 3033 Begin Time: 2020 Aug 05 1010 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 2815 pfu 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 Sub ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2020 Aug 06 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 219 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Aug 2020 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2770 N22E49 024 0160 Cso 08 03 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 05/ ...Continue Reading

*NASA History Listserv Readers: * Sharing information about an upcoming talk from Jennifer Levasseur of the National Air and Space Museum. Through Astronaut Eyes with Jennifer Levasseur *1.   **Thu, Aug 6, 2020 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CDT* Join Hasselblad for an online presentation by Jennifer K. Levasseur, Ph.D., author of Through Astronaut Eyes: Photographing Early Human Spaceflight. Recently published by Purdue University Press, the book explores the genesis and proliferation of still photography in spa ...Continue Reading

  August 05, 2020 RELEASE 20-079*NASA Administrator Statement on the Passing of Mike Freilich* On Jan. 28, 2020, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, NASA and its European partners renamed the Sentinel-6A/Jason-CS satellite Michael Freilich, in honor or Mike Freilich, former director of NASA’s Earth Science Division. Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich will observe and record global sea level changes and will be joined by an identical satellite slated to launch in 2025 for a total of ten year ...Continue Reading