June 13th 2015 PDT
June 13, 2015 RELEASE 15-125*NASA Awards $100,000 to Winning Team of Robot Challenge* NASA has awarded $100,000 in prize money to the Mountaineers, a team from West Virginia University, Morgantown, for successfully completing Level 2 of the Sample Return Robot Challenge, part of the agency's Centennial Challenges prize program. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) hosted the event June 10-12 at its Worcester, Massachusetts, campus. This was the fourth year NASA and WPI held the Sample Robot Return competition. ...Continue Reading
June 12th 2015 PDT
Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2190 Issue Time: 2015 Jun 13 0556 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2189 Begin Time: 2015 Jun 09 1210 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 8585 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading
June 12th 2015 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jun 13 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 164 Issued at 0030Z on 13 Jun 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2360 N15W68 129 0220 Eac 12 16 Beta-Gamma 2362 N08W39 100 0020 Cro 06 03 Beta 2365 S13 ...Continue Reading
June 12th 2015 PDT
June 12, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-092*NASA, University Researchers Discuss Search for Life in Solar System, Beyond* NASA and university scientists will discuss at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday June 16, astrobiology research activities and technology that are advancing the search for evidence of habitability in our solar system and beyond. The briefing will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Briefing topics will include the quest for evidence of habitability and life on Mars, plans for exploring the habi ...Continue Reading
June 12th 2015 PDT
June 12, 2015 RELEASE 15-124*NASA Issues Request for Proposals for New Class of Launch Services*NASA’s Launch Services Program has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for new commercial Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) for small satellites, often called CubeSats or nanosatellites, and experiments on science missions using a class of rockets smaller than any currently available to the agency. NASA plans to award one or more firm fixed-price VCLS contracts to accommodate 132 pounds (60 kilograms) of CubeSats i ...Continue Reading
June 12th 2015 PDT
June 12, 2015 RELEASE 15-122*NASA Prepares for First Interplanetary CubeSats on Agency’s Next Mission to Mars* NASA's two small MarCO CubeSats will be flying past Mars in 2016 just as NASA's next Mars lander, InSight, is descending through the Martian atmosphere and landing on the surface. MarCO, for Mars Cube One, will provide an experimental communications relay to inform Earth quickly about the landing. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech /* When NASA launches its next mission on the journey to Mars – a stationa ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2015 PDT
Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2189 Issue Time: 2015 Jun 12 0630 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2188 Begin Time: 2015 Jun 09 1210 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 6029 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2015 PDT
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jun 12 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 163 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Jun 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2360 N14W55 130 0090 Eai 12 13 Beta-Gamma 2361 N17W30 105 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 2362 N0 ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2015 PDT
June 11, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-093*NASA Announces Television Coverage, Media Activities for Pluto Flyby * NASA is inviting media to cover New Horizons’ historic Pluto flyby in mid-July, including the spacecraft’s closest approach to Pluto on July 14, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission operations center. Media who wish to cover the events at APL must receive accreditation from the APL Public Affairs Office by June 30. Earlier registration ...Continue Reading
June 11th 2015 PDT
The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN NORTHERN CANADA Fires burned across northern Canada. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86024&src=nha *** Image from Jun 10, 2015 (Posted on Jun 11, 2015 10:44 AM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://natu ...Continue Reading
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