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Monday, September 30, 2013
SDO Flight Dynamics' Predicted Events for the Remainder of 2013
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The SDO Flight Dynamics team has generated the timing of maneuvers and other events for the next 90 days. Here is a list with the year and d...
Friday, September 13, 2013
How Can Today's Sunspot Number be 22?
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When I look at the HMI continuum image today I see only a few sunspots, which are circled in the picture on the left. But if I go to the SI...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Stationkeeping Burn Today
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Today at 2200 UTC (6 pm ET) SDO will execute a stationkeeping burn. This 2.4 second firing of four thrusters keeps SDO within its longitude ...
Friday, September 6, 2013
Coronal Holes on NPR
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A story yesterday on NPR's All Things Considered talked about coronal holes . I claimed that they can look like rubber chickens and kok...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Fall 2013 Eclipse Season has begun
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The SDO Fall 2013 Eclipse Season has begin. Every day until September 25, 2013 some part of the Earth's shadow will pass through the SD...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
JSOC Computers are Replaced, Data is Flowing
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The JSOC is back up and running. The replays will be run to populate the various databases. Here's an image from August 22! Many thank...
Momentum Management Thruster Firing and JSOC Update
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This afternoon at 1920 UT (3:30 pm ET) SDO fired its thrusters to drive the reaction wheels to target levels. This was a planned firing. Th...
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