August 31, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-129*NASA Invites Media to Witness Final Orion Parachute Test in Arizona Desert *  The three main orange and white parachutes help a test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft safely descend to the ground in Arizona. On Sept. 12, NASA engineers will test the Orion parachute system at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Yuma for the final time to qualify them for missions with astronauts. */Credits: NASA/James Blair/* NASA is inviting media to view ...Continue Reading

NASA History Listserv Readers: The upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing offers an opportunity to reflect on what we know about the Apollo era, its legacies, and what we still need to learn.  Toward this end, the National Air and Space Museum’s Space History Department and NASA’s History Division are cosponsoring a workshop on December 7, 2018 in Washington, DC.  We invite colleagues who are doing or have done interesting, relevant work—scholarly or well-researched popular work--on Apoll ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2833 Issue Time: 2018 Aug 31 0859 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2832 Begin Time: 2018 Aug 18 1410 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 61001 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 Su ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Aug 31 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 243 Issued at 0030Z on 31 Aug 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Aug Nmbr Location Lo None ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- FIRE SEASON IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES As temperatures became warmer and drier with the arrival of summer, fire season picks up in the Western United States. * The Scars of Mendocino (Image from Aug 27, 2018; Posted Aug 30, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92678/the-scars-of-mendocino/?src=nha ----------------------------- ...Continue Reading

  August 30, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-128*Media Invited to News Conference with NASA Astronaut Anne McClain and Space Station Crewmates* Expedition 58 crew members Anne McClain of NASA (left), Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos (center) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right) pose for pictures May 10 following their final Soyuz spacecraft qualification exams at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. */Credits: NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger /* NASA astronaut& ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2832 Issue Time: 2018 Aug 30 0900 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2831 Begin Time: 2018 Aug 18 1410 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 57922 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 Su ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Aug 30 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 242 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Aug 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type None IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Aug Nmbr Location Lo 2720 ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2831 Issue Time: 2018 Aug 29 0859 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2830 Begin Time: 2018 Aug 18 1410 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 97635 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 Su ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Aug 29 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 241 Issued at 0030Z on 29 Aug 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2720 N07W83 139 0010 Axx 04 01 Alpha IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 28 ...Continue Reading