Watch live as NASA’s next outer solar system mission, Europa Clipper, is built and tested in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

On April 11th 2023 the GONG H-Alpha station at Big Bear managed to capture a unique photo. An airplane flying at the right time and the right place ended on one of the station’s automatically generated images. The image itself consists of several combined frames, so the plane was captured in multiple shots which were… Read more: Rare photo from the GONG H-Alpha network

Two new sidebar widgets have been developed and added – the (flare) Probability and the Latest flare one. The Latest flare widget shows the date of the last detected X-ray flare by the GOES satellite along with the begin, maximum and end times. It also shows the class of the flare at these three moments… Read more: Solar probabilities and Latest flare widgets

New image processing has been implemented for LASCO C2 and C3 coronagraph data. The default processed images from NASA with applied center rotation are now accessible from the respective [ALT] links. The new processing includes stronger star field filtering combined with a modified approach for subtracting the background for C2 from a daily regenerated mean… Read more: New processing for SOHO’s LASCO and EIT

Today, a few configurations updates were performed on the server in order to keep it secured and up to date. One of the changes was dropping support for TLS 1.0 – a cryptographic protocol, now considered outdated and adding support for TLSv1.3 which provides security and performance improvements. As a result, a few very old… Read more: Server update – dropping support for TLS 1.0

There have been six attempts to contact the STEREO Behind spacecraft using 70 meter stations between September 27 and October 9 without success. The last telemetry received from Behind was on September 18, and the last time the carrier wave was detected was on September 23. Recovery attempts for STEREO Behind have moved back to… Read more: STEREO Behind recovery status update (October 11)