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Major update!

The Aurora Forecast apps are now upgraded. They are more standalone with minimum server dependency. A new way to seek satellites and forecasts are implemented to meet future standards of communication.

The drift in position of the geomagnetic poles are also improved and up to date, an effect that is detected by our all-sky cameras. The net result is a major upgrade in performance and accuracy of the app.

Read release notes here.

1 January, 2026

New BACC all-sky camera at Alomar!

Our Boreal Aurora Camera Constellation (BACC) is slowly expanding in size since we started it back in 2015. The constellation has a low-cost philosophy with minimum administrative oversight and load. Camera number 6 is now installed at the Alomar Observatory operated by Andøya Space. We now cover northern Scandinavia and Svalbard with real-time all-sky views of the auroral oval. Data is used to improve our auroral forecast capability. See cameras field of view (coverage).

Read details here.

10 December, 2025

Mission complete!

KHO has successfully supported the NASA Rocket Experiment for Neutral Upwelling 3 (RENU-3) campaign. Our instruments together with the EISCAT Svalbard radar tracked and identified the target aurora. The four-stage, state-of-the-art sounding rocket (Black Brant XII) was launched at 09:52 UT from Andøya Space. It used only 6 minutes and 50 seconds to reach apogee at an altitude of 479 km over Svalbard. Congratulations to all the teams at UNH, NASA Wallops, EISCAT, SuperDARN, UCL, KSAT and Andøya.

Press release Andøya Space.
Diana Swanson's launch video.
Nordlys+ news article (norwegian)

23 November, 2025