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SOLAR WATCH * Huge X8.2 Flare Sept. 10, 2017! (Updated Daily)
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[quote:psyoptics:MV8xMzgyOTUyXzMwNjQ4OTUyXzRBMDlFRUQw] [quote:Hugh M Eye:MV8xMzgyOTUyXzMwNjQ2NzU3X0QwMjI0MDY2] [quote:psyoptics:MV8xMzgyOTUyXzMwNjQ1NDY4XzdCNDMxRjgz] [quote:joinca:MV8xMzgyOTUyXzMwNjMwMTg5XzExRjJFQzUy] This is a tragedy for the USA. Shuttle contractor lays off workers United Space Alliance, the lead space shuttle contractor for NASA, says it has cut its workforce by 10 percent, including 181 employees at Kennedy Space Center. The full story is here: http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Shuttle_contractor_lays_off_workers_999.html :1dunno1: [/quote] like i have been saying...this is not good for all of us! [quote:psyoptics:MV8xMzgyOTUyXzMwNjA4MTE0XzNDOTU3OTk5] have these satellite taken too much of a beating lately? all the odd images i think are troubled onboard electronics. hope not, but this might be the case. this would be something NASA, with all the cut backs would truly want to hide. here is good wishes to all the birds in the sky...to keep them working. no shuttle means no repairman to service them! :blwkss: [/quote] just take the stereo's they went up in 2006 for a 2 years...yes 2 year, mission....that would have been over in 2008 sometime, here we are now in 2012. [/quote] I'm not sure where you got the"2-year mission" info but that's not correct. STEREO was designed to view the sun (and CMEs) from 360 degrees. They achieved that 180 degree separation last year; in fact it was voted as the NASA Space Achievement of the Year 2011-five years into the mission. Here's a space.com article of the 5-year anniversary of STEREO.-- Always on the move The two spacecraft, known as Stereo-A and Stereo-B, won't be on opposite sides of the sun forever. Stereo-A flies in an orbit that's smaller and therefore faster than that of Earth, while Stereo-B has a bigger, slower orbit that causes it to lag behind. [b]By 2015, the twin probes will line up on the far side of the sun. Then they'll continue going their own way, getting farther apart until both are on Earth's side once again.[/b] "Stereo was designed to understand what causes CMEs and how they travel, as well as to understand the structure of the solar wind. It's already made great strides in doing that," [b]Gurman said, referring to the probes' mission. "I'm looking forward to the next five years."[/b] http://www.space.com/13390-nasa-stereo-spacecraft-sun-anniversary.html [/quote] STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). [u]This two-year mission will employ two nearly identical space-based observatories [/u]- one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind - to provide the first-ever stereoscopic measurements to study the Sun and the nature of its coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/mission.shtml The twin STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft were launched Wednesday, [u]October 25th, 2006 [/u]at 8:52 p.m. EDT on a Delta II 7925-10L rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/STEREO_Launch_large.mov i watched this launch back in 2006 was one of the first night launches i saw. but the whole point is our country is more concerned with war then space exploration today, all the money is going into new ways to killing people. look at what has become of NASA in the last 2 years. the bright star of the world's space programs...now just a shell. like i have said!!! if any if these projects run into equiptment issue we do not have the resources to fix them! and many are operating long past their original project dates. yes they well continue to run the projects as long as the equiptment functions, but...... look at the mars rovers. we need to make it clear to this government that our space program is still as important now as i was back in the 60's when i was a wide eyed kid dreaming of traveling to space. let us all hope they will keep working for more then 5 more years! and more good wishes to all the birds in the air! :blwkss::blwkss::blwkss: [/quote]
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Please See Current Events Discussion On Last Page :)
We have just had another huge X flare measuring at a X8.2 originating from sunspot 2673
On September 11, 2017
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link to legacy-www.swpc.noaa.gov
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ALL flares recorded ARE Earth facing regardless of where the sunspot is located
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CME FROM X9 HAS ARRIVED!
Issue Time: 2017 Sep 07 2242 UTC
WARNING: Geomagnetic Sudden Impulse expected
Valid From: 2017 Sep 07 2255 UTC
Valid To: 2017 Sep 07 2330 UTC
IP Shock Passage Observed: 2017 Sep 07 2229 UTC
On September 6th we have had 2 X flares! A X2.2 at 09:10 utc & a secend larger flare just a few hours later of X9.3 at 12:02 utc. There is a large widespread Earth directed CME associated with this latest X flare as we can see here
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link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov (secure)
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link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov (secure)
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An update as to the arrival time of this CME will be added once all data has been reviewed.
The X9.3 flare is the 14th largest X flare ever recorded!
On September 4th we had 7 M flares from fast growing sunspot 2673, with at least 1 large dense Earth directed CME. This CME will arrive late in the day on Wednesday September 6th.
There is now a 25% chance for X flares over the next 24hrs & 71% chance for M flares
We have a Long Duration M2.4 Solar Flare starting
01:05 UTC July 14th 2017
There was a full halo CME observed with this solar flare. The associated CME is Earth Directed. See discussion on the last page for all updates!
1,000,000 Views hit on July 3, 2012
A big thanks to all the wonderful contributors of
the GLP Solar Watch thread!
Please See Current Events Discussion On Last Page :)
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