JSOC suffered a burst water pipe in their cooling system this week which caused a shutdown of the datacenter that stores and processes data for two NASA solar observation satellites.
The facility at Stanford's Joint Science Operations Center houses the infrastructure handling the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). The datacenter handles data from two of SDO's three scientific instruments: the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument and Atmospheric Imaging Array (AIA). Whilst the data is still being collected from the craft, it cannot be processed and delivered until the datacenter has dried-out, damage assessed and repaired and the systems brought back into service.
JSOC is providing updated information on their solarweb site with no current indication on how long it will take to bring the systems back online.
Instrument health and safety monitoring is being handled at the Instrument Operations Center at the Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Lab (LMSAL). JSOC has said the instruments continue to function normally but there will be a significant delay in the delivery of new data.
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