September 5, 2015 The following statement is issued as an addendum to the previous RapidScat announcement on behalf of the RapidScat Project. "We recently began releasing RapidScat wind data to the scientific community after a two-week hiatus due to an instrument anomaly. Our initial evaluation of the current RapidScat wind fields is positive. The accuracy of the winds was similar to that of pre anomaly fields except for low wind speed regions. Because of this pos ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2241 Issue Time: 2015 Sep 05 1340 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2015 Sep 05 1315 UTC Station: GOES13 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 Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscri ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Sep 05 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 248 Issued at 0030Z on 05 Sep 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 04 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 04/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2409 N06E11 019 0030 Cro 04 02 Beta 2410 S19E09 021 0020 Cro 02 03 Beta 2411 N14E64 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- DUST STORM OVER ALGERIA Winds blown dust over Algeria * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86555&src=nha *** Image from Sep 03, 2015 (Posted on Sep 04, 2015 10:49 AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Sep 04 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 247 Issued at 0030Z on 04 Sep 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 03 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 03/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2409 N03E26 018 0030 Cro 04 05 Beta 2410 S19E23 021 0010 Bxo 02 02 Beta IA. H-alpha Pl ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Sep 03 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 246 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Sep 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2406 N03W18 075 0010 Axx 01 02 Alpha 2407 N17W87 144 0030 Cso 06 03 Beta 2409 N04E39 ...Continue Reading

September 02, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-133*NASA TV to Air Grand Opening of Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility * *//* NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will participate in the grand opening of The Boeing Company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Sept. 4. The event will air live on NASA Television beginning at 10 a.m. EDT. Boeing, one of two companies under contract with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to restore America’s ability to lau ...Continue Reading

September 02, 2015 RELEASE 15-180*NASA Soil Moisture Radar Ends Operations, Mission Science Continues* NASA’s SMAP mission, launched in January to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed, continues to produce high-quality science measurements with one of its two instruments. */Credits: NASA/* Mission managers for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory have determined that its radar, one of the satellite’s two science instruments, can no longer return data. Howev ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURRICANE FRED In late August 2015, a hurricane formed father east in the tropical Atlantic than it has at any time in the satellite era. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86517&src=nha *** Image from Aug 31, 2015 (Posted on Sep 01, 2015 2:28 PM) --------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

September 2, 2015 Starting on 15 August 2015 (orbital rev 5064) and continuing to present day, there has been an anomalous drop in the echo power signal in the receiver of approximately 20 dB, which initially took place at 03:01:59 UTC. Both noise and signal power dropped but not by equal amounts. The Signal to Noise Ratio dropped by 10 dB. Corresponding with this drop in power was an increase of approximately 0.20 mA in current in the Scatterometer Electronics Subsystem ...Continue Reading