:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 17 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 137 Issued at 0030Z on 17 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2339 N11W72 131 0300 Fkc 18 20 Beta-Gamma 2341 S20W45 104 0060 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 2342 N1 ...Continue Reading

May 16, 2015 RELEASE 15-093*NASA Challenges Designers to Construct Habitat for Deep Space Exploration* */Credits: NASA/* NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, known as America Makes, are holding a new $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space exploration, including the agency’s journey to Mars. The multi-phase 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge, part of NASA's Centennial Challenges program, is designed to advance the additive construction technol ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2183 Issue Time: 2015 May 16 0500 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2182 Begin Time: 2015 May 14 0920 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 8788 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: 2015 May 16 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 136 Issued at 0030Z on 16 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 15 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 15/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2339 N12W59 131 0310 Fkc 19 26 Beta-Gamma 2341 S20W31 103 0070 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2342 N1 ...Continue Reading

May 15, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-075*NASA Opens Media Accreditation for New Horizons Pluto Flyby * NASA has opened media accreditation for the New Horizons spacecraft’s historic encounter with Pluto in mid-July. Media will have the opportunity to cover the New Horizons’ mission, including the spacecraft’s closest approach to the dwarf planet on July 14, from the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland where the mission operations center resides. NASA also will provide comp ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2182 Issue Time: 2015 May 15 0526 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2181 Begin Time: 2015 May 14 0920 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 4131 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: 2015 May 15 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 135 Issued at 0030Z on 15 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 14 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 14/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2339 N11W45 129 0400 Fac 19 21 Beta 2341 S20W18 102 0080 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2342 N17W06 ...Continue Reading

May 14, 2015 RELEASE 15-092*NASA Study Shows Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf Nearing Its Final Act* A new NASA study finds the last remaining section of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002, is quickly weakening and likely to disintegrate completely before the end of the decade. A team led by Ala Khazendar of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, found the remnant of the Larsen B Ice Shelf is flowing faster, becoming increasingly fragmented and developing ...Continue Reading

Folks:             The National Air and Space Museum has an opening in the Space History Department (https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/403709900) .  Thanks,             Steve  Stephen Garber NASA History Program Office Room 5P25 NASA Headquarters Washington, DC 20546 202-358-0385 http://history.nasa.gov Forward this Message to a Friend » Subscription Reminder: You're Subscribe ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2181 Issue Time: 2015 May 14 0941 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2015 May 14 0920 UTC Station: GOES-13 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 subscr ...Continue Reading