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15 March 10 Daily forecast status indicators for solar, geomagnetic and ionospheric conditions can be Green (normal), Yellow (moderate activity) or Red (disturbed). The IPS Space Weather page shows current conditions.

09 March 10 World Data Centre: A new data set, GPS Scintillation data and its README file, has been added onto World Data Centre FTP Download site.

08 March 10 The 28 foot diameter solar radio dish at Learmonth Solar Observatory which monitors solar radio emission at 245,410 and 610Mhz has developed a mechanical fault. Apparently the motor/gearbox needs to be replaced which requires the lowering of the dish. Due to the size of the structure this data outage is expected to be extensive. This may affect the accuracy of some interpolated IFLUX values. outage

11 February 10 The IT problem that impacted real time mapping services has been fixed. service restored

11 February 10 A computer problem since 09UT on 10 Feb at IPS is currently affecting real time mapping of the ionosphere, both for the global and Australian regions. The maps being produced are not indicative of NVIS support. Since the maps are not indicative of current conditions, this probably means the real time HAP charts are not usable. IPS apologizes for this service disruption. IPS IT are working to resolve this problem as quickly as possible. service diruption

24 January 10 Culgoora Solar image processing restored after switching to back up computer. data flow resumes

22 January 10 Culgoora Solar imagery currently unavailable due to a computer failure at IPS. The outage may last until next Thursday. data outage

12 January 10 World Data Centre: A new data set, RINEX-format GPS data and its README file, has been added onto World Data Centre FTP Download site.

21 December 09 IPS is seeking to engage a professional officer to further develop, evaluate and implement space weather products derived from geomagnetic field data analysis.

07 December 09 Due to a computer problem IPS Culgoora Solar Imagery will be unavailable 7-13 Dec. Solar imagery unavailable

02 December 09 The number of detector tubes in the Australian Antarctic Program Mawson neutron detector will be increased from 17 to 18 sometime on 2 Dec 2009. This change is likely to produce an offset in the data. Automatic Cosmic Ray Alerts and some processing have been suspended for 02 Dec. Cosmic Ray Detector Upgrade.

28 November 09 Due our UPS systems running down the IPS website was not available during the interval 2100UT to 2300UT on Nov 27. website unavailable

19 November 09 The Learmonth ionosonde may have a power output problem. This is suggested by the low values produced during the local day over recent days. These values are presently considered unrealistic. Local night values may be ok. For now the data from this ionosonde has been blocked from mapping systems until the apparent problem is investigated. Degraded data.

30 October 09 Culgoora H-alpha and whitelight solar patrol has resumed after a short break for maintenance. back on patrol

23 October 09 The Culgoora optical patrol telescopes (Halpha and whitelight) will not be available over the weekend and possibly into early next week, due to the telescope drive gearbox undergoing maintenance.

19 August 09 Learmonth Observatory experienced a power outage during theinterval 23-03UT August 2009. Data flow has resumed. Data break

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