Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #18-22 2018 May 27 at 9:19 p.m. MDT (2018 May 28 0319 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For May 21-27 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For May 28-June 3 G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storms are likely on 02 June due to influence from a recurrent, negative polarity coronal hole high-speed stream. Data used to provide space w ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 749 2018 May 28 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. On May 5 Dragon CRS-14 returned t ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 May 28 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 148 Issued at 0030Z on 28 May 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2711 N05W84 291 0010 Bxo 03 02 Beta 2712 N15E28 179 0040 Cro 09 05 Beta IA. H-alpha Pl ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 May 27 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 147 Issued at 0030Z on 27 May 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2711 N07W70 291 0030 Cro 04 03 Beta 2712 N15E43 178 0040 Cao 08 03 Beta IA. H-alpha Pl ...Continue Reading

  May 26, 2018 RELEASE 18-043*NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy Record-Breaking Skylab, Apollo Astronaut* The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on the passing of Apollo and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean: “Alan Bean once said ‘I have the nicest life in the world.’ It’s a comforting sentiment to recall as we mourn his passing. “As all great explorers are, Alan was a boundary pusher. Rather than accepting the limits of tec ...Continue Reading

  May 26, 2018 RELEASE 18-044*Family Release Regarding the Passing of Apollo, Skylab Astronaut Alan Bean* The following is an obituary article released on the behalf of Alan Bean’s family: Alan Bean, Apollo Moonwalker and Artist, Dies at 86 HOUSTON, Texas — Apollo and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the moon and an accomplished artist, has died. Bean, 86, died on Saturday, May 26, at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. His death ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 May 26 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 146 Issued at 0030Z on 26 May 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2711 N06W55 289 0040 Cso 07 05 Beta 2712 N14E56 178 0040 Cao 09 07 Beta IA. H-alpha Pl ...Continue Reading

  May 25, 2018 RELEASE 18-041*NASA Awards $43.5 Million to US Small Businesses for Technology Research, Development* *//* NASA has selected 304 proposals from U.S. small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase I of its 2018 SmallBusinessInnovationResearch (SBIR) program and 44 proposals for the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program, totaling $43.5 million in awards. These selections support NASA'sfuturespa ...Continue Reading

  May 25, 2018 CONTRACT RELEASE C18-014*NASA Awards Options for Two Joint Polar Satellite System Spacecraft* NASA has exercised options under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III)contractfor two additional Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) spacecraft to be built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Orbital ATK of Dulles, Virginia, will build NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System JPSS-3 and -4. The contract value is $460 mi ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2018 May 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 145 Issued at 0030Z on 25 May 2018 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2710 N17E25 222 0000 Axx 01 01 Alpha 2711 N06W41 288 0060 Cai 06 06 Beta 2712 N13E75 ...Continue Reading