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the discovery orbiter took off from cape canaveral, florida, right
on schedule on its way to the international space station.  it marks
the first shuttle launch since the 2003 columbia disaster.  the
discovery crew includes six amateur radio licensees, including
mission commander eileen collins, kd5eds. discovery also is carrying
the pcsat2 amateur radio payload to the iss, where it will be
installed during a space walk.  Sunspots declined again to zero this
week.  There havent been any spots on the Earth facing disk of the
sun for several days.  Average daily sunspot number declined over 73
points to 18R1.  Average daily solar flux was down nearly 26 points
to 77R5. Several readers inquired this week about negative sunspot
numbers.  Thats because a value of negative 1 appeared from NOAA as
the sunspot number for July 18 on numerous reports, including a
daily summary of several solar indicators, including solar flux,
sunspot number and sunspot area. Sunspot numbers were 61, 38, 16,
12, 0, 0 and 0 with a mean of 18R1. 10R7 cm flux was 89R9, 87R2,
76R3, 74R1, 72, 71R2 and 72R1, with a mean of 77R5. Estimated
planetary A indices were 11, 6, 9, 22, 34, 10 and 20 with a mean of
16.  Estimated mid latitude A indices were 7, 4, 10, 15, 19, 8 and
14, with a mean of 11‚

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