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. 

August 22nd Daily e-mail.

Hej och god morgon (Hi and good morning), 

Update Summary

Payload 3E is still up! We were able to recover from our drop in altitude last night! We are back up above 30 km, and actually pretty close to our float altitude. We're currently at about 34 km and have a very slow ascent rate up, so maybe we'll get back even a bit more ground (or sky?). However, we've gone quiet a bit far south and may soon start to get close to some towns. Fingers crossed we go perhaps a bit more North and East, or slowly West. Actually lets just hope that we stay within the wilderness. 

No news yet on whether we'll launch on Monday or Tuesday, but we'll be able to say more after tomorrow's MET briefing. 

Have a great weekend!

News from Kiruna
Ground Weather:

http://www.irf.se/weather/
Temp.:  15.3 C
Wind speed:  0.1 m/s with a max of 1.2 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 Monday 
3E  Launched at 7:05 UT on August 21st.

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. 

Recent possible events: 
Payload 3A: August 10 2015 ~15:30  - 18:00 UT clear precipitation in FSPC1a, b, c and FSPC 2 Possibly some nice ULF waves

Payload 3A: August 10 2015 18:40 - 19:00 FSPC1a, b, c, FSPC 2, and possibly in FSPC3 and 4 as well 

Payload 3A: August 10 2015 19:15 - 20:30 UT FSPC1a, b, c, FSPC 2, and again possibly in FSPC3 and 4 as well. Again some ULF wave structure. 

Payload 3B August 13th 06:30 -11:20  It looks like there may have been microbursts in both the FSPC1 and FSPC2 files.

Payload 3B August 13th 13:20 - 16:00 UT An increase in FSPC 1 possibly FSPC2. 

Payload 3C August 17th 13:40 - 14:00 UT an increase in all 4 energy channels. 

Payload 3C August 17th 14:30 - 22:30 UT an increase in FSPC1 and FSPC 2 energy channels. Every once in awhile it looks like there were increases in the FSPC 3 and 4 channels as well. 

Payload 3D August 19th 7:15 - 12:40 UT an increase in the FSPC1 and FSPC2 channels. 

Payload 3E August 21st 08:30 - 13:30 UT an increase in the FSPC-1 channel. It looks like there are a few microbursts; fewer than observed on the 13th. There are other time periods observed as well throughout the event. 

Payload 3E August 21st 19:05 - 19:40 a tiny fluctuation in the FSPC 1 and maybe the FSPC 2 channels. 

Payload 3E August 22nd 0530 - 0545 UT An increase in the FSPC1 and 2 channels. 

News from Van Allen Probes:
Summary

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

Collection times for EFW:

August 10th
RBSP-A 2015-08-10 (good MMS conjunction) 12:25-20:00 @4096
RBSP-B: 11:30-18:45 @4096 

August 13th 

RBSP-A: 12:15-19:20 @4096
RBSP-B: 11:30-18:40 @4096

August 15th

Both RBSP-A and RBSP-B: 01:35-05:35 (4 hrs) @16384 

Both RBSP-A and RBSP-B: 10:40-14:40 (4 hrs) @16384 

Both RBSP-A and RBSP-B: 19:30-23:30 (4 hrs) @16384  

August 16th
Both RBSP-A and RBSP-B: 11:30-19:30 (8 hrs) @4096

August 19th
Both RBSP-A and RBSP-B: 12:00-19:30

August 22nd
RBSP-A: 12:00-19:30
RBSP-B: 12:30-19:45

August 25thRBSP-A: 11:30-18:45 

RBSP-B: 12:30-20:00

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 yesterday! 

News from Firebird:

Summary
No new news

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
There was maybe a small substorm last night but it looks quiet now. It does look like there was a nice strong EMIC wave this morning starting at 3:00.

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

There was an EMIC wave before we launched yesterday but it seems pretty quiet for the rest of the day. 

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

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

GOES Electron Flux:
Both >2MeV and >800 keV are still elevated.

GOES Proton Flux:
GOES proton fluxes are remaining nominal.

Solar wind speed: 

Vsw = 379.8 km/s

Solar proton density:

density = 10.2 protons/cm^3

Sun spot number:
78. The new large beta-gamma sunspot labeled 2403 is still growing. It's still not Earth facing, but should be sometime next week. 

Flare activity:
There was an M class flare this morning. 

Kp:
kp =  1 with a 24 hour max of kp = 2

SW magnetic field:

Bz = 2.2 nT South

Btotal =  6.6 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 21st or 22nd. 

AE:

AE may show the start of a small substorm.    

Dst:

Dst is currently quiet. 

Daily BARREL check in information: No Telecon this weekend.

Time: 7pm Kiruna time (13:00 Dartmouth time, 12:00 Minneapolis/Iowa time, 11:00 University of Colorado Boulder, 10:00 Berkley time). 

Phone number +1 641-715-3580

Access code 481960

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. 

August 21st Daily e-mail

Hej och god morgon (Hi and good morning), 

Update Summary

We launched payload 3E today at about 7:05 UT. The payload is currently up but still has a bit of a northward component. We're hoping that it is going to continue to go more East and maybe a bit south so that we can get an even longer flight. 

We saw a GRB on August 19th at around 10:30 on 3D. 

As requested, here is the link to our CDF files for all campaigns. http://barreldata.ucsc.edu/data_products/v05/l2/

News from Kiruna
Ground Weather:

http://www.irf.se/weather/
Temp.:  23.0 C
Wind speed:  1.1 m/s with a max of 3.7 m/s within the last five minutes or so.  

Stratospheric weather:
Turnaround may be here but the winds are still fast and unpredictable. They are currently heading North. 

Payloads up: Next possible launch Monday 
3E  Launched at 7:05 UT on August 21st.

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. 

News from Van Allen Probes:
Summary

Some new times for collection added. EMFISIS saw a lot of activity on the 17th. 

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 today! 

News from Firebird:

Summary
No new news

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
There was a nice substorm and EMIC wave last night. Currently the magnetic field is still disturbed, but not much. 

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

It looks like there was an EMIC wave maybe in the dawn sector yesterday, but also at noon yesterday as well. 

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

It looks like there was some nice precipitation throughout the day at IVA, SOD, ROV, and OUL. 

GOES Electron Flux:
Both >2MeV and >800 keV appear to be enhanced and climbing at the moment. 

GOES Proton Flux:
GOES proton fluxes are remaining nominal.

Solar wind speed: 

Vsw = 463.3 km/s

Solar proton density:

density = 3.0 protons/cm^3

Sun spot number:
68. There is a new large beta-gamma sunspot labeled 2403. It is not currently Earth-direced. 

Flare activity:
Very quiet... 

Kp:
kp =  1 with a 24 hour max of kp = 3

SW magnetic field:

Bz = 2.8 nT North

Btotal =  4.9 nT 

Coronal hole news
There is now an Earthward facing coronal hole. It is more poleward, but much larger than the last. There is 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 21st or 22nd. 

AE:

AE is very quiet.   

Dst:

Dst is currently quiet. 

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. 

August 20th Daily e-mail.

Hej och god morgon (Hi and good morning), 

Update Summary

Kathryn rescued payload 3D today while the rest of us got ready for tomorrows launch. 

According to ENLIL it looks like starting late tonight we'll start seeing some higher velocity solar wind speeds. The peaks seem to be at right about midnight, early morning on the 20th and then another on the 23rd. It looks like there may be an even larger (broader?) and faster high speed stream coming shortly after the 25th. Definitely something to look forward to. 

As requested yesterday, here is the link to our CDF files for all campaigns. http://barreldata.ucsc.edu/data_products/v05/l2/

News from Kiruna
Ground Weather:

http://www.irf.se/weather/
Temp.:  24.5 C
Wind speed:  1.4 m/s with a max of 2.7 m/s within the last five minutes or so.  

Stratospheric weather:
Turnaround may be here but the winds are still fast and unpredictable. 

Payloads up: Next possible launch Friday morning 9am. 

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. 

News from Van Allen Probes:
Summary

Some new times for collection added. EMFISIS saw a lot of activity on the 17th. 

News from MMS: 
No new news.

News from THEMIS: 

No new News

News from Cluster:

From Fabien -  Just a comment about Cluster : A conjunction is possible on 20 and 21 (not so close on 20), but there are no conjunction possible with Cluster before 20-21 August. 

News from Firebird:

Summary
No new news

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
It looks like there it is starting to get active (Yay as we finally have "night" and could potentially see the aurora.). It looks like there's an EMIC wave between 9-10 UT and another starting at about 12 and possibly have ended but the graph ends so it's hard to tell. 

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

It looks like there was some EMIC wave activity yesterday both in the morning before 3UT and again at about 22 UT but not while we were flying. 

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

It looks like there was some nice precipitation throughout the day at IVA, SOD, and OUL all seem to have observed at least some precipitation in the morning. 

GOES Electron Flux:
Both >2MeV and >800 keV appear to be enhanced and climbing at the moment. 

GOES Proton Flux:
GOES proton fluxes are remaining nominal.

Solar wind speed: 

Vsw = 455.3 km/s

Solar proton density:

density = 2.3 protons/cm^3

Sun spot number:
36.  only one numbered sunspot.  

Flare activity:
Very quiet... 

Kp:
kp =  2 with a 24 hour max of kp = 3

SW magnetic field:

Bz = 7.6 nT South

Btotal =  4.9 nT 

Coronal hole news
There is now an Earthward facing coronal hole. It is more poleward, but much larger than the last. There is 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 21st or 22nd. 

AE:

It looks like we may have just had a nice substorm activity  

Dst:

With Dst having reach > -10 nT I think we can say that the last storm or two has recovered. 

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. 

August 19th Daily e-mail.

Hej och god morgon (Hi and good morning), 

Update Summary

This morning we launched payload 3D at about 8:02 Local time (6:02 UT). It was cut down just moments ago at about  12:50 UT. 

We may try for a launch on Friday morning. There is also the possibility of a high speed stream encountering the Earth at about that time.  

News from Kiruna
Ground Weather:

http://www.irf.se/weather/
Temp.:  23.0 C
Wind speed:  1.1 m/s with a max of 2.8 m/s within the last five minutes or so.  

Stratospheric weather:
Turnaround may be here but the winds are fast and unpredictable. 

Payloads up: Next possible launch Friday morning 9am. 

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. 

News from Van Allen Probes:
Summary

Some new times for collection added. EMFISIS saw a lot of activity on the 17th. 

News from MMS: 
No new news.

News from THEMIS: 

No new News

News from Cluster:

From Fabien -  Just a comment about Cluster : A conjunction is possible on 20 and 21 (not so close on 20), but there are no conjunction possible with Cluster before 20-21 August. 

News from Firebird:

Summary
No new news

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
It looks like there was a substorm or some other activity last night. It also looked like there may have been an EMIC wave from about midnight to 3UT. 

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

Lots of broad band ULF power yesterday but no EMIC waves. 

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

It looks like there was some nice precipitation throughout the day at IVA, SOD, and ROV. 

GOES Electron Flux:
Both >2MeV and >800 keV seem to be recovering but there is still a lot of structure. 

GOES Proton Flux:
GOES proton fluxes are remaining nominal.

Solar wind speed: 

Vsw = 459.5 km/s

Solar proton density:

density = 3.6 protons/cm^3

Sun spot number:
20.  only one numbered sunspot.  

Flare activity:
Very quiet... 

Kp:
kp =  2 with a 24 hour max of kp = 3

SW magnetic field:

Bz = 6.7 nT South

Btotal =  8.1 nT 

Coronal hole news
There is now an Earthward facing coronal hole. It is more poleward, but much larger than the last. There is 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 21st or 22nd. 

AE:

AE is quieting down compared to the last couple of days. 

Dst:

The Dst may have had a minor storm depending on if you say that it's still in the recovery phase of the August15/16th storm or not. We reached a min. Dst of -54 nT this morning at about 6 UT. 

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. 

August 18th Daily e-mail.

Hej och god morgon (Hi and good morning), 

Update Summary

Yesterday we had our third launch, payload 3C. It lasted for almost 16 hours and had activity again for almost the entire flight. It was terminated this morning at about 5:30 local time. We'll recovery the payload tomorrow. It landed at most 1.5 km from the road. 

No launch today but we're going to try for a launch tomorrow morning. The Sun appears to be quiet at the moment. However there are a few coronal holes which may produce some high speed streams by the 19th and increasing through the 21st according to the WSA-ENLIL model. 

News from Kiruna
Ground Weather:

http://www.irf.se/weather/
Temp.:  22.7 C
Wind speed:  1.9 m/s with a max of 3.5 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. 
3C launched at ~12:10 UT on August 17th.

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. 

3C terminated at about 03:33 UT on August 18th. 

News from Van Allen Probes:
Summary

Some new times for collection added. EMPHASIS saw a lot of activity on the 17th. 

News from MMS: 
No new news.

News from THEMIS: 

No new News

News from Cluster:

From Fabien -  Just a comment about Cluster : A conjunction is possible on 20 and 21 (not so close on 20), but there are no conjunction possible with Cluster before 20-21 August. 

News from Firebird:

Summary
No new news

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

EISCAT was able to capture most of yesterday's event. 

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

Kiruna Magnetometer:  http://www.irf.se/Observatory/?link=Magnetometers
The activity in the magnetometer seems to be recovering. Still no EMIC waves. 

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

Lots of broad band ULF power but no EMIC waves. 

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

It looks like there was some nice precipitation earlier in the day yesterday, but t seems to have died down by about 15:00 UT.  

GOES Electron Flux:
Both >2MeV and >800 keV are still elevated.  

GOES Proton Flux:
GOES proton fluxes are remaining nominal.

Solar wind speed: 

Vsw = 449.5 km/s

Solar proton density:

density = 2.4 protons/cm^3

Sun spot number:
20. Apparently this is the fewest sunspots the Sun has had in 2015.  

Flare activity:
Very quiet... 

Kp:
kp =  2 with a 24 hour max of kp = 4

SW magnetic field:

Bz = 1.6 nT South

Btotal =  3.6 nT

Coronal hole news
There is now an Earthward facing coronal hole. It is more poleward, but much larger than the last. There is a second coral hole which is a bit smaller but at the solar equator which is starting to possibly become Earth directed. 

AE:

AE is quieting down compared to the last couple of days. 

Dst:

The Dst appears to still be slowly recovering and is now at -15 nT. 

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. 

August 17th Daily e-mail

Hej och god morgon (Hi and good morning), 

Update Summary

What a day! We had a great launch and once again seem to have landed in the middle of some great space weather! The payload has been up for about 4 and a half hours and seems to be going strong. 

No launch for tomorrow, but there may be a possibility for a launch on the 19th. 

News from Kiruna
Ground Weather:

http://www.irf.se/weather/
Temp.:  21.4 C
Wind speed:  0.3 m/s with a max of 1.7 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. 
3C launched at ~12:10 UT on August 17th.

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 will be no conjunctions on August 20th or 21st. 

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 is running for this event! 

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. No strong signatures of EMIC waves, but there may be something, but it's very close to the bottom and may be just part of the broad band activity.

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

only broad band data from either the 16th or 15th. Hopefully tomorrow we'll know if they saw EMIC waves.  

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

It looks like there was at least some precipitation during this storm :) 

GOES Electron Flux:
Both >2MeV and >800 keV are growing and the > 2 MeV electrons are almost an order of magnitude above the electron event threshold.  

GOES Proton Flux:
GOES proton fluxes are remaining nominal.

Solar wind speed: 

Vsw = 555.7 km/s

Solar proton density:

density = 2.6 protons/cm^3

Sun spot number:
32- number 2396 is officially off the face of the Sun. 

Flare activity:
Very quiet... 

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

SW magnetic field:

Bz = 0.3 nT north

Btotal =  5.1 nT 

Coronal hole news
There is now an Earthward facing coronal hole. It is more poleward, but much larger than the last. 

AE:

Quiet active! It looks like there is a substorm going on right now. 

Dst:

Definitely recovering. Currently at -36 nT

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.