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Monday, February 29, 2016
A Station Keeping Maneuver in the Spring 2016 Eclipse Season
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SDO's Spring 2016 Eclipse Season started on February 19, 2016, with the Earth passing between SDO and the Sun at 0712 UTC that day. Th...
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Happy Launch Anniversary SDO!
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Today is the 6th anniversary of the SDO launch. I was looking for a good picture or movie when this came in my email. It says it all. Happ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
January Maneuvers
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Last Wednesday SDO did the HMI/AIA roll maneuver, where the satellite spins around to help the scientists better understand the instruments...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Short Outages in the SDO Website and Data Flow
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Since Monday there have been several interruptions in the SDO website and data flow. On Monday a test of the Inertial Reference Units result...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
2015 was a Very Good Year
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2015 was a great year for SDO! We finished our prime mission and began the first extended mission. Several hundred scientific papers appeare...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Data Outages Have Ended
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The data outages caused by snow and ice ended Monday morning when the Sun melted the last pieces of ice off of the SDO antennas. Many than...
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Data Outages Due to Snow in Southern New Mexico
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Since last night, the SDO science telemetry downlink has been severely degraded due to snow and ice in southern New Mexico. The telemetry fi...
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