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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The U.S. Naval Observatory’s Earth Orientation department is pleased to announce the re-opening of the official IERS Rapid Service / Prediction Center website at the following URL address:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://maia.usno.navy.mil" title="https://maia.usno.navy.mil"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://maia.usno.navy.mil</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Starting Feb 10, 2022, this site will be the primary public source for data products published by the IERS Rapid Service / Prediction Center, as well as the primary source for announcements and information concerning those products.
Data products may be found through browsing the site, or downloaded directly from the main product index at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">In addition to the overhauled website design, we have also made our services more robust and secure:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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We have moved to distributing our products via HTTPS for increased data integrity and security of data transmission. Please note that the unsecured HTTP protocol is no longer supported.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Our website and data are now hosted on an Amazon Web Services Cloud environment, improving server up-time and reliability.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
We have consolidated our publication servers to a single instance, removing any confusion over the "best" server to use. The former backup site (toshi.nofs.navy.mil) has been retired and will not be returning.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
A new version of the EO Matrix Calculator web application with an improved interface is now available at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://maia.usno.navy.mil/matrix-calculator"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://maia.usno.navy.mil/matrix-calculator</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="color:black">During the outage, we hope you were able to continue receiving our products through NASA CDDIS, which graciously provided a mirror for our data while our main site was down. While this was not ideal for some customers, we thank you
for your patience and understanding while we made several improvements to our website. All data products will continue to be uploaded to the CDDIS mirror at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/products/iers/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/products/iers/</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>,
so users should not expect any of their current links or data retrieval scripts to break. However, we encourage users to review their options and begin transitioning to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://maia.usno.navy.mil"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://maia.usno.navy.mil</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as
their primary source if this new site meets their needs, as this site will receive our publications more promptly and directly, and does not require login to any user accounts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Sharyl Byram, PhD<br>
Chief, GPS Analysis Division<br>
Earth Orientation Department<br>
United States Naval Observatory<br>
3450 Massachusetts Avenue NW<br>
Washington, DC 20392<br>
tel: (202) 762-0185 </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">sharyl.m.byram.civ@us.navy.mil </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:red"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:red">
note the new email address</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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