Jonathan's Space Report No. 748 2018 Apr 24 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 55 continues with Anton Shkaplerov in command, Scott Tingle, Norishige Kanai, Oleg Artemev, Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel as flight engineers. Ferry ships Soyuz MS-07 and Soyuz MS-08 are docked to the station. Dragon CRS-14 arrived at the ISS ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Apr 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 114 Issued at 0030Z on 24 Apr 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2706 N02E16 281 0080 Cao 08 12 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 23/ ...Continue Reading

  April 23, 2018 RELEASE 18-028*Vice President Pence Swears in New NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine* Vice President Mike Pence, left, swears in Jim Bridenstine as the 13th NASA Administrator as Bridenstine's family watches, Monday, April 23, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. */Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls /* Jim Bridenstine officially took office as the 13th administrator of NASA Monday after he was given the oath of office by Vice President Mike Pence at the agency’s head ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- LATE SPRING SNOW IN THE UPPER MIDWEST An April storm dropped record amounts of snow in some cities. * Late Spring Snow in the Upper Midwest (Image from Apr 19, 2018; Posted Apr 20, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=92043&src=nha HURRICANE IRMA * NASA Mapping Hurricane Damage to Everglades ( ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- LATE SPRING SNOW IN THE UPPER MIDWEST An April storm dropped record amounts of snow in some cities. * Late Spring Snow in the Upper Midwest (Image from Apr 19, 2018; Posted Apr 20, 2018) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=92043&src=nha -------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

Monday, April 23, 2018 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the MetOp-A ASCAT Level 2 Climate Data Record (CDR) datasets provided by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) Ocean and Sea Ice Scatterometer Application Facility (OSI SAF). Two Level 2 netCDF datasets are included in this release: [*]25 km CDR (effective resolution = 50 km) [*]12.5 km CDR (effective resolution = 25 km) optimized ...Continue Reading

  April 23, 2018 MEDIA ADVISORY M18-067*Vice President Pence to Swear in New Agency Administrator; Airing on NASA Television* Jim Bridenstine was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday, April 19, to serve as the NASA’s 13th administrator. */Credits: NASA/* Vice President Mike Pence will swear in Jim Bridenstine as NASA’s new administrator at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, April 23, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. The ceremony will air live on NASA Television a ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2771 Issue Time: 2018 Apr 23 0901 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2770 Begin Time: 2018 Apr 10 1830 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 22704 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

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #18-17 2018 April 22 at 7:56 p.m. MDT (2018 April 23 0156 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For April 16-22 G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storm conditions were observed on 20 April due to coronal hole effects. No other significant space weather was observed. Outlook For April 23-29 No significant space weather is expected during the outlook period. Data use ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 Apr 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 113 Issued at 0030Z on 23 Apr 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2706 N03E29 281 0130 Dao 09 10 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 22/ ...Continue Reading