Sept 13, 2006

Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237

Steve Roy Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala 256-544-0034

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-145

NASA ANNOUNCES SOLAR-B MEDIA BRIEFING

NASA is hosting a media teleconference to discuss its role in Solar-B, a three-year international mission to study the sun's magnetic field and how its turbulent nature impacts Earth The teleconference will take place at 1 p m EDT Monday, Sept 18

Briefing participants: - John M Davis, Solar-B project scientist, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala - Ted Tarbell, principal investigator for the Solar Optical Telescope Focal Plane Package, Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, Calif - Ed DeLuca, principal investigator for the X-ray Telescope, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass - John Mariska, co-investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington

Solar-B is set to launch on Saturday, Sept 23, from Uchinoura Space Center, Kagoshima, Japan Led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Solar-B is a collaboration among the space agencies of Japan, the U S , United Kingdom and Europe

Reporters should call: 877-546-1568 and use the passcode "SOLAR" to participate in the teleconference International media callers should call: 210-234-0005 Audio of the event will be streamed live on the Web at:

www nasa gov/newsaudio

Images and additional information will be available during the conference at:

http://www nasa gov/solar-b

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