Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2674 Issue Time: 2017 Sep 30 0503 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2673 Begin Time: 2017 Sep 28 1235 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 38412 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: 2017 Sep 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 273 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Sep 2017 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2681 S14W48 180 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2682 S09E08 124 0120 Cao 09 06 Beta 2683 N14E21 ...Continue Reading

September 29, 2017 MEDIA ADVISORY M17-114*NASA Invites Media to 'Rocket Day' for Space Launch System* A dome is lifted into place to form the Space Launch System (SLS) liquid hydrogen tank for the first SLS flight. Once this piece was added, all the major welding on the liquid hydrogen tank was complete. The liquid hydrogen tank was the last of five core stage structural pieces that will be connected to form the 212-foot-tall SLS core stage for the first flight. */Credits: NASA/MSFC Michoud image: Jude Guidry ...Continue Reading

September 29, 2017 MEDIA ADVISORY M17-113*NASA Opens Media Accreditation for November Space Station Cargo * Media accreditation is open for the launch of the eighth Orbital ATK cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. */Credits: NASA/* Media accreditation is open for the launch of the eighth Orbital ATK cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital ATK is targeting no earlier ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2673 Issue Time: 2017 Sep 29 0500 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2672 Begin Time: 2017 Sep 28 1235 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 5465 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: 2017 Sep 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 272 Issued at 0030Z on 29 Sep 2017 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2681 S14W35 180 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2682 S09E21 124 0130 Cao 11 07 Beta 2683 N14E26 ...Continue Reading

Thursday, September 28, 2017 The JPL GRACE Mascon Ocean, Ice and Hydrology Equivalent Water Height (hereafter, Mascon) Version 2 datasets have been recently updated with four additional months to its data time series, which brings the time series up to June, 2017. Users are cautioned that after August 2016, the accelerometer on GRACE-B has been turned off, and an “accelerometer transplant” product (from GRACE-A) has been used in its place.  This has resulted in additional uncertainty in the surface mas ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- HURRICANE MARIA Evolving from category 1 to category 5 in less than 18 hours, Hurricane Maria brought destruction to several Caribbean islands. * Puerto Rico Landscape Ravaged by Hurricane Maria (Image from Sep 26, 2017; Posted Sep 28, 2017) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=91030&src=nha -------------------- ...Continue Reading

September 28, 2017 MEDIA ADVISORY M17-111*South Carolina Students to Speak with NASA Astronaut on Space Station * Astronaut Randy Bresnik, STS-129 mission specialist, is pictured onboard the space shuttle Atlantis shortly before the shuttle and the station began their post-undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 3:53 a.m. (CST) on Nov. 25, 2009. Some scenes in the series show parts of the Mediterranean Sea and Africa and Spain in the background. */Credits: NASA/* Students a ...Continue Reading

September 28, 2017 MEDIA ADVISORY M17-112*Briefing, NASA Television Coverage Set for Upcoming US Spacewalks* In this May 2017 photo, NASA astronaut Jack Fischer works outside the U.S. Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/* Three American astronauts aboard the International Space Station will embark on a trio of spacewalks in October to perform station maintenance. NASA Television and the agency’s website will provide live coverage of the spacewalks, as well as a brief ...Continue Reading