BARREL Status Report #14 August 23, 2016

BARREL Status Report #14

August 23, 2016

We had two great flights with BARREL Flights 4C and 4D. Both payloads survived the night and caught the Van Allen Probe conjunction early in the morning. Payload 4C also caught a conjunction with MMS yesterday though it doesn’t look like any precipitation was observed during the conjunction. We did see relativistic precipitation on both payloads when they were about 100 km apart so this will provide us with some information about the spatial distribution at smaller scales than we obtained during our Antarctic campaigns. Both flights were terminated on August 22 due to their location.  Flight 4D was terminated at 1321 UT and Flight 4C was terminated at 1533 UT. The payloads landed about 12 km apart and both were recovered earlier today. We were very pleased to get some longer flights and are now well into turnaround. The next launch opportunity is tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1700 local time in Sweden. 

Robyn

BARREL Status Report #12 August 17, 2016

BARREL Status Report #12

August 17, 2016

BARREL Flight 4B was terminated this morning at 0350 UT. The balloon started with a nice southerly trajectory, so we thought we might get a long flight out of it. But, it took a sharp turn to the west right after sunrise and had to be cut down as it approached the mountains. Despite the relatively short flight, we caught all of the RBSP conjunction we were targeting, and even had some substorm activity. We saw a very bright relativistic precipitation event which may have been associated with that substorm. The payload was recovered in very good shape earlier today. Note that this payload was also carrying the Univ. of Houston TEC experiment. We’re excited to see if they saw any change in total electron content due to the energetic precipitation! 

The Van Allen Probes EFW team is now requesting playback of burst data from our first flight and they are planning data collections for the next conjunctions. We will not be launching on Thursday due to the predicted flight trajectory (climb out is mostly west which shortens the flight substantially). So, the next launch attempt is likely to be on Friday. I’ll send another update then. 

Robyn

NASA's BARREL Mission in Sweden

A BARREL team member recovers the second payload after it landed. 

 

The BARREL team is at Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, Sweden, launching a series of six scientific payloads on miniature scientific balloons. The NASA-funded BARREL – which stands for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses – primarily measures X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere near the North and South Poles. These X-rays are produced by electrons raining down into the atmosphere from two giant swaths of radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen belts. Learning about the radiation near Earth helps us to better protect our satellites. 

 

Several of the BARREL balloons also carry instruments built by undergraduate students to measure the total electron content of Earth’s ionosphere, as well as the low-frequency electromagnetic waves that help to scatter electrons into Earth’s atmosphere. Though about 90 feet in diameter, the BARREL balloons are much smaller than standard football stadium-sized scientific balloons.

 

This is the fourth campaign for the BARREL mission. BARREL is led by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The undergraduate student instrument team is led by the University of Houston and funded by the Undergraduate Student Instrument Project out of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. For more information on NASA’s scientific balloon program, visit: www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons. 

 

Image credit: NASA/Montana State University/Arlo Johnson

August 23rd Daily e-mail.

Hej och god morgon (Hi and good morning), 

Update Summary

Payload 3E came down yesterday at about 18:37 UT . We saw a lot of great stuff during it's flight and hopefully this is a good sign for the next one. 

No launch tomorrow, but we're shooting for one Friday morning. We'll keep you updated as we here more. 

News from Kiruna
Ground Weather:

http://www.irf.se/weather/
Temp.:  22.1 C
Wind speed:  2.3 m/s with a max of 3.8 m/s within the last five minutes or so.  

Stratospheric weather:
Turnaround may be here but the winds are still fast and unpredictable. They haven't yet seemed to set up, but here's hoping!

Payloads up: Next possible launch Tuesday

Payloads coming/which came down:3A launched at ~ 13:50 UT on August 10th and terminated at about 20:30 UT on August 10th
3B launched at ~4:30 UT on August 13th and terminated at about 17:18 UT on August 13th. 

3C launched at ~12:10 UT on August 17th and terminated at about 03:33 UT on August 18th. 

3D launched at ~6:02 UT on August 19th and terminated at about 12:50 UT on August 19th. 

3E  Launched at 7:05 UT on August 21st and terminated at about 18:37UT on August 22nd.  

News from Van Allen Probes:
Summary

There will be new collection times. See the toban report. 

News from MMS: 
No new news.

News from THEMIS: 

No new News

News from Cluster:

From Fabien -  We may have caught a conjunction with Cluster on the 21st! 

News from Firebird:

Summary
They have about 2 weeks left in their memory and are currently downloading data. 

News from AeroCube 6
From Drew and Bern - They had some great conjunctions and are now trying to get down the data. 

News from EISCAT

No new News 

Space Weather  from Spaceweather.com, SWPC.noaa.gov , and Kyoto (possibly others as well)

Kiruna Magnetometer:  http://www.irf.se/Observatory/?link=Magnetometers
Lost of structure going on in the raw data but no EMIC waves or broad band stuff seen in the spectrogram. 

Finish Magnetometer Array: http://www.sgo.fi/Data/Pulsation/latestPulsation.php

Some nice EMIC waves seen from about 03:00 - 15:00 UT on the 22nd at most of the magnetometers. 

Scandinavian Riometer data http://sgo.fi/Data/Riometer/latestRiometer.php

The data haven't yet been updated for the 21st. or 22nd yet. 

GOES Electron Flux:
Both >2MeV and >800 keV seem to be depleted from yesterday. But there's been a lot of structure so hopefully they will increase as the high speed stream starts to hit the Earth's magnetosphere. 

GOES Proton Flux:
GOES proton fluxes are remaining nominal.

Solar wind speed: 

Vsw = 570.5 km/s

Solar proton density:

density = 3.8 protons/cm^3

Sun spot number:
72. The large beta-gamma sunspot labeled 2403 is still growing and starting to get to the center of the sun. 

Flare activity:
There was a C6 flare this morning. 

Kp:
kp =  5 with a 24 hour max of kp = 6

SW magnetic field:

Bz = 1.7 nT north

Btotal =  6.5 nT 

Coronal hole news
There is now an Earthward facing coronal hole. There is also a second coral hole which is a bit smaller but at the solar equator which is starting to possibly become Earth directed. The current Earthward facing coronal hole is expected to hit around the 22nd  or 23rd.  

AE:

There have been a couple of nice enhancements starting at about 7:00 UT. 

Dst:

Dst reached -40 nT this morning but appears to be recovering now.  

Swedish Phrase of the day:

A street names down the road

här bor jag  = Here I live

Hej då och god kväll från Kiruna (Good bye and good evening from Kiruna), 

Alexa and the BARREL team. 

BARREL updates August 15th 2015

Hej och god morgon (Hi and good morning), 

Update Summary

It looks like there may be some good space weather at the moment, but we are not going to be able to launch tomorrow. Hopefully it continues into Monday. The ground winds are looking very high at the moment and the Stratospheric winds are fast and straight West which would give us only a few hour flight likely. However, Monday we hope to launch and it looks like Monday will be the first day of turnaround. We're hoping that we'll be getting much much longer flights from here on out. 

We have the KML files for both BARREL flight up on the drop box now. I just got the CDF files so for everyone waiting for more precise timing I'll get it to you as soon as possible.

There will be no telecom today or tomorrow. They will resume on Monday. 

News from Kiruna
Ground Weather:

http://www.irf.se/weather/
Temp.:  14.4 C
Wind speed:  2.1 m/s with a max of 4.2 m/s within the last five minutes or so.  

Stratospheric weather:
Turnaround is almost here! We expect to see it on Monday. 

Payloads up: Next possible launch Monday mid day/early afternoon. 

Payloads coming/which came down:
3A terminated at about 20:30 UT on August 10th
3B terminated at about 17:18 UT on August 13th. 

News from Van Allen Probes:
Summary

Some new times for collection added. 

News from MMS: 
MMS will be in good position around 09:00 to 11:00 UT. Burst data will not be available until at the end of that window, but we can look for 1030 – 1230 UT, or so and again later around 1400, when VAP will be back in position.

News from THEMIS: 

From Xiaojia - I have put together a couple of close conjunctions (in L) between three probes of THEMIS and this BARREL balloon, assuming that you launch at early local morning on August 7th and the geographic location is stabilized at esrange. Currently the THEMIS Ops team are working on implementing special time-based particle burst captures (at 128 Hz) during these intervals. 

News from Cluster:

From Fabien -  There is sadly no conjunction possible for a possible launch on 10 August. But the first good one is on 12 August at around 11 UT. Which with 6 balloons total is a definite possibility. 

News from Firebird:

Summary
From Alex Crew - FIREBIRD is still getting down context (low-rate data) for these periods but we will hopefully (probably tomorrow am around the telecon) commence getting down some hi-res data from this interval [likely ~1920 UT...]

News from AeroCube 6
From Drew - They had some great conjunctions and are now trying to get down the data. 

News from EISCAT

EISCAT had the weekend off so we'll update once we decide on the next round of  

Space Weather  from Spaceweather.com, SWPC.noaa.gov , and Kyoto (possibly others as well)

Kiruna Magnetometer:  http://www.irf.se/Observatory/?link=Magnetometers
There is definitely a storm going on and it looks like some EMIC waves from 8:30 - 10:30.  There might be on later near 12 but it's not clear if it's an EMIC wave or just part of the broadband stuff.

Finish Magnetometer Array: http://www.sgo.fi/Data/Pulsation/latestPulsation.php

There were some nice EMIC waves yesterday from about 5UT till about 18UT depending on the station you looked at.  

Scandinavian Riometer data http://sgo.fi/Data/Riometer/latestRiometer.php

There may have been some last night but we'll find out about today's storm. 

GOES Electron Flux:
Both >2MeV and >800 keV seem to be depleted. 

GOES Proton Flux:
GOES proton fluxes are remaining nominal.

Solar wind speed: 

Vsw = 471.0 km/s

Solar proton density:

density = 5.7 protons/cm^3

Sun spot number:
46 - number 2396 is only barely viewable. 

Flare activity:
Very quiet... 

Kp:
kp =  7 with a 24 hour max of kp = 7

SW magnetic field:

Bz = 2.5 nT  north

Btotal =  20 nT

Coronal hole news
There is now an Earthward facing coronal hole. It's a bit on the small side. However it may hit August 16th or 17th. There is a larger but more poleward one almost to the middle of the earthward facing side. 

AE:

Quiet active! 

Dst:

reached -64 nT but currently at -57

Swedish Phrase of the day:

A street names down the road

här bor jag  = Here I live

Hej då och god kväll från Kiruna (Good bye and good evening from Kiruna), 

Alexa and the BARREL team. 

From the ice: An Update from Robyn, Feb 4th.

No launches again today due to high surface winds. Payload 2A was terminated at 1730 UT.  For those of you who haven't seen it, here's a link to an article about BARREL on the NASA website. There is also a video that Alexa put together. I can't view it myself but have heard it's great!

http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-funded-science-balloons-launch-in-antarctica/

Also, some of you have been asking about our travel plans. Our SANAE team leaves around February 9th. They'll fly to Novo and then on to Cape Town from there. The Halley team will board the ship somewhere between February 17 - 20 and will sail to the Falkland Islands. We expect to depart from the Falklands on March 1st to return via South America. As such, the last possible launch date for the SANAE team is February 9th and the Halley team a few days later (we have to have our cargo on the line by February 15th at the latest). Although we've now launched 20 balloons, we'd very much like to replace the two that came down shortly after launch. So, each team hopes to be able to launch one more before departing. So far, surface conditions do not look great for the next few days. We have a possible launch opportunity from both stations tomorrow.


Robyn

BARREL Daily Update Feb 3rd 2014

Hi all, 

2L was cutdown last night. It had already been a bit low but started dropping suddenly and unexpectedly. 

The CME which was expected to hit on Feb. 2nd may or may not have arrived yet. There was definitely a bit of an increase and some compressions late last night. However some sources are saying that it won't be here until Feb. 4th now. 

That CME came/is coming from sunspot 1967 which NOAA is now giving a 50% chance of producing a X-class flare and a 80% chance of producing a M-class flare. It is now geo-effective, so lets hope for the X-flare and a huge CME to follow. We've had lots and lots of M-class flares over the last 24-48 hours. Hopefully this is a good sign that we'll have some geomagnetic activity soon. 

Ground Weather:
SANAE IV: 
Temp.: -10. C
Wind speed: 13 knots

Halley 6: 
Temp.: -15.7 C
Wind speed: 12 knots 

Payloads up: 
SANAE IV: 2A, 2B, 2E, 2F
Halley 6:  2O, 2P, 2Q

Payloads coming down:
2L

Collection times for EFW:  

2014-01-28

A: 19:30 - 23:59

2014:01-29

B: 17:20 - 22:30

2014-01-30

A: 13:40 - 20:40

2014-01-31

A: 16:40 - 23:40 

B: 12:30 - 19:30

2014-02-02

A: 13:30 - 20:20

2014-02-03

B: 12:45 - 19:45

2014-02-05

A:13:15 - 18:59

A: 19:10 - 20:30

Halley Bay Search Coil Magnetometer :

some nice EMIC wave activity with the late arrival of the CME. 

GOES Electron Flux:

The electron levels have stayed at moderate levels, but thee were some dropouts/structure. 

GOES Proton Flux:

The proton levels are at moderate levels but there were some dropouts from the start of the SI

Space Weather from Spaceweather.com and SWPC.noaa.gov 

Solar wind speed: 365.6 km/s 

Solar proton density: 4.2 cm^(-3)  

Sun spot number: 163

NOAA has the likelihood of a M class flare at 80% and a 50% chance of an X class flare.  

There are currently no large coronal holes observed on the Earthward side of the Sun, but one is starting to peak around. 

Kp is quiet 

kp =2 with a 24 max of kp = 2

Bz = 3.1 north

Btotal = 6.4 nT  

From Kyoto:

AE: quiet

Dst: quiet.

BARREL Daily Update Jan 27th 2014

Hi all, 

Yesterday Halley launched 2O and SANAE launched 2D today. On another note, as we haven't been able to reconnect with 2C it is likely that it has self terminated or is terminating very shortly.

If you haven't checked out Aaron's e-mail, with this new increase, we've been able to get rid of almost all the backlog of burst data! So, if you had a time period that you were interested in, but perhaps figured wasn't as interesting as some other things in the cue... Speak up! We may be able to grab it before we overwrite. Also thanks to the EFW and EMFISIS teams in particular and the whole Van Allen team in general for getting this to work!

Sunspots 1944 and 1946 are still peaking their way around and appear to still be active! There was also a small CME which may give us a glancing blow on Jan 29th. The ENLIL models though only show a very very slight increase in density and nothing really in SW velocity. If we aren't in trouble with over writing important stuff, perhaps we should grab some burst data during this time, but I don't think it should be a high priority. There may be better stuff coming with the reappearance of these two sunspot regions, so something to keep in mind. Also If you remember there was a larger geo-effective coronal hole right after these sunspot regions. From the pictures of the backside of the sun, it looks like this will also make a reappearance. This coronal hole had SW velocities > 800 km/s, but northward Bz. Hopefully we'll be able to see some more amazing geomagnetic activity from both the sunspots and this coronal hole in a week or so's time.

Ground Weather:
SANAE IV: 
Temp.: -6. C
Wind speed: 12

Halley 6: 
Temp.: -5.8 C
Wind speed: 8 knots 

Payloads up: 
SANAE IV: 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D
Halley 6:  2L, 2O

Payloads coming down:
2C

Collection times for EFW:  
2013-01-06 (A just to West, B quite a ways to West)
A: 15:40-21:30   (6h 10m)
B: 17:30-19:30  (2h)

20:30-23:00 (2h 30m)

2013-01-07 (A quite west, B very west of stations)
A: 19:00-21:00  (2h)

22:30-23:59  (1h 30m)

B: 20:45-21:45  (1h)
00:45Jan8-02:00Jan8  (2h 15m)

2013-01-09  (A just to West, B quite a ways to West)

A: 15:15-21:15 (at 16k)  (6h)      

B: 17:30-20:30 (at 16k)  (3h)

     20:33-24:00 (at 4k)   (3.5hrs)

2013-01-10 (west of stations)

A: 18:00-01:00(jan11)

B: 20:00-03:00(jan11)

2013-01-11

B: 14:45-21:00

2013-01-12

A: 14:40-21:30

B: 17:00-24:00

2014-01-15

 A: 14:30-21:30

2014-01-22

A: 2014-01-22/17:15 - 23:59:59

2014-01-23

B: 2014-01-23/15:00 - 22:00

Halley Bay Search Coil Magnetometer :
EMIC waves last night.

GOES Electron Flux:
The electron levels have stayed at moderate levels.

GOES Proton Flux:
The proton levels are at moderate levels. 

Space Weather from Spaceweather.com and SWPC.noaa.gov 
Solar wind speed: 328.2 km/s 
Solar proton density: 1.8 cm^(-3)  

Sun spot number: 109
NOAA has the likelihood of a M class flare at 20% and a 1% chance of an X class flare.  

There are currently no coronal holes observed on the Earthward side of the Sun. 

Kp is quiet 
kp =0 with a 24 max of kp = 2

Bz = 0.7 south
Btotal = 5.2 nT  

From Kyoto:
AE: quiet

Dst: quiet

BARREL Daily update Jan 22nd 2014

Hi all, 

We had a substorm earlier today! 2X was also cut down earlier this morning. 

Ground Weather:

SANAE IV: 

Temp.: -8. C

Wind speed: 14.5 knots

Halley 6: 

Temp.: -4.9 C

Wind speed: 11 knots 

Payloads up: 

SANAE IV: 2A, 2B, 2C

Halley 6:  2L,

Payloads coming down:

 2X Some are getting lowish but no news yet of another one coming down. 

Collection times for EFW:  

2013-01-06 (A just to West, B quite a ways to West)

A: 15:40-21:30   (6h 10m)

B: 17:30-19:30  (2h)

20:30-23:00 (2h 30m)

2013-01-07 (A quite west, B very west of stations)

A: 19:00-21:00  (2h)

22:30-23:59  (1h 30m)

B: 20:45-21:45  (1h)

00:45Jan8-02:00Jan8  (2h 15m)

2013-01-09  (A just to West, B quite a ways to West)

A: 15:15-21:15 (at 16k)  (6h)      

B: 17:30-20:30 (at 16k)  (3h)

     20:33-24:00 (at 4k)   (3.5hrs)

2013-01-10 (west of stations)

A: 18:00-01:00(jan11)

B: 20:00-03:00(jan11)

2013-01-11

B: 14:45-21:00

2013-01-12

A: 14:40-21:30

B: 17:00-24:00

2014-01-15

 A: 14:30-21:30

2014-01-22

A: 2014-01-22/17:15 - 23:59:59

2014-01-23

B: 2014-01-23/15:00 - 22:00

Halley Bay Search Coil Magnetometer :

quiet. 

GOES Electron Flux:

The electron levels have stayed at moderate levels, although they have seen some structure throughout the last 24 hours. 

GOES Proton Flux:

The proton levels are at moderate levels. 

Space Weather from Spaceweather.com and SWPC.noaa.gov 

Solar wind speed: 505.2 km/s 

Solar proton density: 0.4 cm^(-3)  

Sun spot number: 141

NOAA has the likelihood of a M class flare at 30% and a 1% chance of an X class flare.  

The coronal hole has hit. We are seeing SW velocities above 500 km/s. 

Kp is quiet 

kp =2 with a 24 max of kp = 3

Bz = 0.8 north

Btotal = 6.3 nT  

From Kyoto:

AE: We are seeing a series of substorms! 

Dst: very quiet. 

BARREL Daily Update Jan 19th 2014

Hi all,

2N was a slow leaker. It was cut down early this morning. 

We still have a few days until the Winds from the Coronal Hole may or may not hit us. There are a number of larger sunspots coming around the Earthward facing side of the sun. Hopefully next week will bring more geomagnetic storms. 

Ground Weather:

SANAE IV: 

Temp.: -5. C

Wind speed: 11 knots

Halley 6: 

Temp.: -5.6 C

Wind speed: 14 knots 

Payloads up: Possible launch today from either site

SANAE IV: 2X, 2Y, 2A, 2B

Halley 6:  2L,

Payloads coming down:

 2N Some are getting lowish but no news yet of another one coming down. 

Collection times for EFW:  

2013-01-03

A: 16:00-17:30 (MLTs 11.5-13) Pass to West of stations

A: 19:10-21:40 (MLTs 14-16.5)

B: 17:10-18:40 (MLTs 11.5-13)

B: 21:15-22:45 (MLTs 14.5-16)

2013-01-04 to 2013-01-05   Far to West pass

A: 18:50-20:20 (MLTs 11.3-12.8)

A: 22:50-00:20(jan5)   (MLTs 15-16)

B: 20:15-21:40 (MLTs 11.5-13)

2013-01-05      

A: 16:20-18:20 (MLTs 14.5-16.2)   pass b/t stations

B: 14:20-16:20 (MLTs 11.6-13.4)   pass b/t and West of stations

    18:00-20:00 (MLTs 14.3-16.3)

2013-01-06 (A just to West, B quite a ways to West)

A: 15:40-21:30   (6h 10m)

B: 17:30-19:30  (2h)

20:30-23:00 (2h 30m)

2013-01-07 (A quite west, B very west of stations)

A: 19:00-21:00  (2h)

22:30-23:59  (1h 30m)

B: 20:45-21:45  (1h)

00:45Jan8-02:00Jan8  (2h 15m)

2013-01-09  (A just to West, B quite a ways to West)

A: 15:15-21:15 (at 16k)  (6h)      

B: 17:30-20:30 (at 16k)  (3h)

     20:33-24:00 (at 4k)   (3.5hrs)

2013-01-10 (west of stations)

A: 18:00-01:00(jan11)

B: 20:00-03:00(jan11)

2013-01-11

B: 14:45-21:00

2013-01-12

A: 14:40-21:30

B: 17:00-24:00

Halley Bay Search Coil Magnetometer :

Some faint EMIC waves

GOES Electron Flux:

The electron levels have stayed at moderate levels. 

GOES Proton Flux:

The proton levels are at moderate levels. 

Space Weather from Spaceweather.com and SWPC.noaa.gov 

Solar wind speed: 281.4 km/s 

Solar proton density: 1.8 cm^(-3)  

Sun spot number: 114

NOAA has the likelihood of a M class flare at 30% and a 5% chance of an X class flare.  

There is a coronal hole coming which is expected to hit Earth on Jan 22nd. 

Kp is quiet 

kp =1 with a 24 max of kp = 1

Bz = 0.4 south

Btotal = 1.8 nT  

From Kyoto:

AE:  very quiet

Dst: very quiet. 

BARREL Daily Update Jan 17th 2014

Hi all, 

2T, after ~22 days afloat, has been terminated. It was a pioneer of a payload, our first BARREL campaign balloon to have circumnavigate antarctica, the Robert Falcon Scott of our payloads if you will. Not only did 2T circumnavigate antarctica, but it it did a tour of our magnetosphere having traversed from closed to open and back to closed magnetic field lines. We believe it saw direct injections of relativistic electrons from the SW, along with a wide range of other activity. 2T is survived by it's sister payloads, 2X, 2Y, 2A, and 2L all currently up at float altitude. 

Things are very very quiet at the moment. However it looks like we have a coronal hole which may hit us on Jan 22nd and there are a number or numbered sunspots making their way back around. In particular sunspot 1936 is about to show on the Earthward side of the sun and has been crackling with c class flares. Very small flares, but we can hope that perhaps it will grow in complexity by the time it becomes geo-effective. This is likely after Jan 22nd. This is the active region which produced those large M-class flares on January 1st. Hopefully it hasn't died down too much on it's trip around the Sun. 

Ground Weather:

SANAE IV: 

Temp.: -7. C

Wind speed: 8 knots

Halley 6: 

Temp.: -2.6 C

Wind speed: 14 knots 

Payloads up: Possible launch today from either site

SANAE IV: 2X, 2Y, 2A

Halley 6:  2L

Payloads coming down:

2T Some are getting lowish but no news yet of another one coming down. 

Collection times for EFW:  

2013-01-03

A: 16:00-17:30 (MLTs 11.5-13) Pass to West of stations

A: 19:10-21:40 (MLTs 14-16.5)

B: 17:10-18:40 (MLTs 11.5-13)

B: 21:15-22:45 (MLTs 14.5-16)

2013-01-04 to 2013-01-05   Far to West pass

A: 18:50-20:20 (MLTs 11.3-12.8)

A: 22:50-00:20(jan5)   (MLTs 15-16)

B: 20:15-21:40 (MLTs 11.5-13)

2013-01-05      

A: 16:20-18:20 (MLTs 14.5-16.2)   pass b/t stations

B: 14:20-16:20 (MLTs 11.6-13.4)   pass b/t and West of stations

    18:00-20:00 (MLTs 14.3-16.3)

2013-01-06 (A just to West, B quite a ways to West)

A: 15:40-21:30   (6h 10m)

B: 17:30-19:30  (2h)

20:30-23:00 (2h 30m)

2013-01-07 (A quite west, B very west of stations)

A: 19:00-21:00  (2h)

22:30-23:59  (1h 30m)

B: 20:45-21:45  (1h)

00:45Jan8-02:00Jan8  (2h 15m)

2013-01-09  (A just to West, B quite a ways to West)

A: 15:15-21:15 (at 16k)  (6h)      

B: 17:30-20:30 (at 16k)  (3h)

     20:33-24:00 (at 4k)   (3.5hrs)

2013-01-10 (west of stations)

A: 18:00-01:00(jan11)

B: 20:00-03:00(jan11)

2013-01-11

B: 14:45-21:00

2013-01-12

A: 14:40-21:30

B: 17:00-24:00

Halley Bay Search Coil Magnetometer :

Not much to say, very quiet.

GOES Electron Flux:

The electron levels have stayed at moderate levels. 

GOES Proton Flux:

The proton levels are at moderate levels. 

Space Weather from Spaceweather.com and SWPC.noaa.gov 

Solar wind speed: 354.6 km/s 

Solar proton density: 2.0 cm^(-3)  

Sun spot number: 77

NOAA has the likelihood of a M class flare at 1% and a 1% chance of an X class flare.  

Kp is quiet 

kp =0 with a 24 max of kp = 1

Bz = 0.6 south

Btotal = 4.5 nT  

From Kyoto:

AE:  very quiet!

Dst: very very quiet.