New data from NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) is available at its regular frequency following a data outage in November 2024. A small amount of historical data collected prior to 2014 is still being restored from backups. The SDO mission provides critical, near-real-time and high-resolution solar observations for the study of the near-Earth space environment and space weather by tracking solar activity, magnetic fields, and the outer solar atmosphere.
Repairs were completed at the Joint Science Operations Center at Stanford University – which processes and distributes data from two of SDO’s imaging instruments – in February, restoring the flow of SDO data to its normal cadence.
Data from NASA’s IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) mission was also briefly impacted during the outage. As of February, all data is available from the IRIS archive at Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Lab.