News

Most Recent

11 Mar 2024
Assuming the power is restored, the Ionosonde will be down for a short period in preperation for a site reptile survey.
08 Mar 2024
The Ionosonde is down due to a power failure.
06/07 Feb 2024
The Ionosonde will be turned off for these two days for some archaeological investigations to take place on the site.
06/07 Jan 2024
All UKSSDC services will be shutdown over the weekend of 6/7th January for building power supply testing. Services should be reinstated on Monday 8th.
22 Dec 2023
The Ionosonde has been running stably for just over a month.
25/26 Nov 2023
All UKSSDC services will be shutdown over the weekend of 25/26th November for building power supply testing. Services should be reinstated on Monday 27th.
12 Jun 2023
The Chilton Ionosonde is down with a transmitter fault. It may take some time to effect a repair.
02 Jun 2023
The Chilton Ionosonde will be off for periods for a soil survey of the site.
30/31 May 2023
The Chilton Ionosonde will be off for periods over these days for a topgraphic survey of the site.
28 Apr 2023
The Chilton Ionosonde will be shut off for a few hours this morning for a short survey.
07 Mar 2023
The Chilton Ionosonde has suffered a communications failure. The fix may take a few days.
20 Jan 2023
The Chilton Ionosonde transmit antenna has been repaired and the system is back in operation.
17 Oct 2022
The Chilton Ionosonde will be off for an unknown period as the transmit antennas have been damaged and require repair.
10 Oct 2022
The Chilton Ionosonde will be off for a few hours over the next two days while the vegetation is cut back in the antenna field.
05 Sep 2022
The Chilton Ionosonde will be off for a few hours today while work is conducted in the antenna field.
08-12 Jul 2022
The Chilton Ionosonde will be off during working hours for most of this period to allow ground works to proceed.
16 Mar 2022
The Chilton Ionsonde will be off for a period today while work is conducted in the antenna field.
04 Mar 2022
The Chilton Ionsonde will be off for a period today while work is conducted in the antenna field.
25 Jan 2022
The Chilton Ionosonde is down until 26th Jan.
19 Jan 2022
The Chilton Ionosonde is off for the day due to a due to a site survey in the antenna field.
10 Jan 2022
The Chilton Ionosonde will be working intermittently 10-12 January due to vegetation clearance in the antenna field.
22 Nov 2021
The Chilton Ionosonde will be working intermittently 22-26 November due to a site survey in the antenna field.
02 Dec 2021
NERC are conducting a survey about services provided via the NERC Environmental Data Service (EDS) which includes funding for the UKSSDC. Please consider responding to this survey, which closes June 7th.
04 Dec 2017
The Chilton ionosonde has failed again.
30 Nov 2017
The Chilton ionosonde is now back on line.
28 Nov 2017
The Chilton ionosonde failed, but is now back working though not sending files to the UKSSDC.
03 Feb 2017
The Chilton ionosonde is now back on line
01 Feb 2017
The Chilton ionosonde has failed.
29 Dec 2016
The Chilton ionosonde has now been fixed.
23 Dec 2016
The Chilton ionosonde has failed. Due to the Christmas break, the system will not be fixed until after Christmas.
24 Oct 2014
The Chilton Ionosonde is now back on line. Sorry for any inconvenience.
19 Sep 2014
Unfortunately as well as the hardware problems with the Chilton ionosonde, the UKSSDC has suffered a major disk drive failure which is affecting the real-time ionospheric data.
19 Sep 2014
Unfortunately the Chilton ionosonde has suffered a hardware failure and staff will be unable to look at a fix until Monday.
7 Feb 2013
The UKSSDC has recently concluded that the solar images on glass plates in its collection of solar images on glass and print were most likely taken by Cambridge Solar Observatory.
19 Dec 2012
The UK CHIANTI Atomic Database for Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Astrophysical Plasmas is no longer hosted at the UKSSDC. Please use http://www.chiantidatabase.org in future.
21 Nov 2012
Recent UKSSDC service problems were due to a local power cut and subsequent damage to systems. Real time Chilton ionosonde data was restored on 20th Nov 2012.
11 Oct 2012
New historical solar data and images catalogue available online including Photo-heliospheric reports from 1874 to 1976 and a catalogue of solar images from 1903 to 1942.

UKSSDC

19 Dec 2012
The UK CHIANTI Atomic Database for Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Astrophysical Plasmas is no longer hosted at the UKSSDC. Please use http://www.chiantidatabase.org in future.
21 Nov 2012
Recent UKSSDC service problems were due to a local power cut and subsequent damage to systems. Real time Chilton ionosonde data was restored on 20th Nov 2012.
23 September 2009
A history of data revisions is now available. Downloading data that has been affected by a revision will also offer a link to this information.

Solar

7 Feb 2013
The UKSSDC has recently concluded that the solar images on glass plates in its collection of solar images on glass and print were most likely taken by Cambridge Solar Observatory.
19 Dec 2012
The UK CHIANTI Atomic Database for Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Astrophysical Plasmas is no longer hosted at the UKSSDC. Please use http://www.chiantidatabase.org in future.
11 Oct 2012
New historical solar data and images catalogue available online including Photo-heliospheric reports from 1874 to 1976 and a catalogue of solar images from 1903 to 1942.
15 December 2003
Some changes to our dataset of 10.7cm Solar Radio Flux Values

Virtual Library

12 October 2004
The Aeronomy, Solar-Terrestrial Physics and Chemistry Virtual Library is now hosted and maintained by the UKSSDC

STP Community, UK

Information on MIST (Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial) community.

If you have any items of news that you think would be useful here please send them to Matthew Wild or Sarah James and we will see about placing them here.