July 28 & 30: System Downtimes for Monthly Patching

20 Jul, 2026

To facilitate patching, the systems at NAS will be unavailable Tuesday, July 28 and Thursday, July 30 according to the following schedule:

July 28, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Pacific)

  • Jobs on Aitken, Electra, and the LDANs will be suspended at the start of the outage and resumed once work is complete.
  • The AFEs, PFEs, LFEs, the Lou mass storage system, and the NAS hyperwall will be unavailable during this period.
  • sfe6 will also be unavailable. Please use sfe7 or sfe8 to connect to the enclave.

July 30, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Pacific)

  • Jobs on Athena, Cabeus, and Endeavour will be suspended at the start of the outage and resumed once work is complete.
  • The ATHFEs, CFEs, and CGHFEs will be unavailable during this period.
  • sfe7 and sfe8 will also be unavailable. Please use sfe6 to connect to the enclave.

As maintenance progresses, we will send out notifications as each system becomes available. See Running Jobs Before Dedicated Time in the Knowledge Base to learn how to manage your jobs to run before dedicated time.

If you have any questions or need assistance please contact the Control Room at (800) 331-8737, (650) 604-4444, or support@nas.nasa.gov.

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