Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2156 Issue Time: 2015 Mar 05 1941 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2155 Begin Time: 2015 Mar 03 1240 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1049 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

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 4, 2015 * NASA Opens Media Accreditation for Next SpaceX Space Station Mission Launch *  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Jan. 10, 2015 carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station.Image Credit: NASA/Tony Gray & Kevin O'Co ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Mar 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 64 Issued at 0030Z on 05 Mar 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 04 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 04/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2292 S08W70 012 0180 Cai 08 13 Beta 2293 N05W38 340 0070 Cao 10 10 Beta IA. H-alpha Pla ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 4, 2015 * NASA Television to Air Major SLS Booster Test Firing Events, Media Invited *  Engineers at Orbital ATK in Promontory, Utah, prepare to test the booster that will help power NASA’s Space Launch System to space to begin missions to deep space, including to an asteroid and Mars. A test on March 11 is one of tw ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 4, 2015 * NASA Television to Air Space Station Change of Commander, Return of Three Crew Members *  Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA (left), Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos, seen here at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 4, 2015 * NASA’s Chandra Observatory Finds Cosmic Showers Halt Galaxy Growth *  A study of over 200 galaxy clusters, including Abell 2597 shown here, with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed how an unusual form of cosmic precipitation stifles star formation. Image Credit: NASA/CXC/DSS/Magellan  ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2155 Issue Time: 2015 Mar 04 1703 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2154 Begin Time: 2015 Mar 03 1240 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 2054 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 Mar 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 63 Issued at 0030Z on 04 Mar 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 03 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 03/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2292 S08W59 014 0090 Dac 08 11 Beta 2293 N06W26 341 0050 Dao 08 07 Beta IA. H-alpha Pla ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (03 March 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Thick Dust Plumes Obscure Africa's Coast http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85423&src=eoa-iotd * A Mitten Materializes in Greenland http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85376&src=eoa-iotd * Djibouti and the Southern Red Sea http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85400&src=eoa-iotd * Bang ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 3, 2015 * NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Available for Interviews before One-Year Space Station Mission *  NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is pictured in the Cupola of the International Space Station during his tenure as a flight engineer for ISS Expedition 25 in 2010.Image Credit: NASA  NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who is mak ...Continue Reading