May 21, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-077*NASA TV to Air Announcement of Instruments for Europa Mission* The fascinating surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon's surface at the highest resolution. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute/* NASA will announce on Tuesday, May 26, the selection of science instr ...Continue Reading

May 21, 2015 RELEASE 15-097*NASA, Canadian Agency Renew Agreement to Reduce Aviation Icing Risks* On hand to sign the renewal agreement Thursday at the NRC offices in Ottawa, Ontario, were Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator of NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington, and Ian Potter, the NRC’s vice-president of engineering. "The combined efforts of our two agencies will help solve some of the most difficult and challenging weather-related issues facing the aviation community," S ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 712 2015 May 21 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 43 continues under the command of Terry Virts, with FE-1 Anton Shkaplerov and FE-2 Samantha Cristoforetti joined by FE-3 Gennadiy Padalka, FE-4 Mikhail Kornienko and FE-5 Scott Kelly after the TMA-16M (flight 42S) docking. Dragon CRS-6 arrived ...Continue Reading

May 21, 2015 RELEASE 15-103*Critical NASA Research Returns to Earth Aboard U.S. SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft * The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was released from the International Space Station's robotic arm at 7:04 a.m. EDT Thursday. The capsule then performed a series of departure burns and maneuvers to move beyond the 656-foot (200-meter) "keep out sphere" around the station and begin its return trip to Earth. */Credits: NASA TV/* SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean ...Continue Reading

May 21, 2015 RELEASE 15-095*NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe* A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy is the most luminous galaxy found to date and belongs to a new class of objects recently discovered by WISE -- extremely luminous infrared galaxies, or ELIRGs. "We are looking at a very intense phase of galaxy evolution," said Chao-Wei Tsai of ...Continue Reading

May 21, 2015 RELEASE 15-100*NASA Invites Universities to Submit Innovative Early-Stage Technology Proposals* Artist conception of space structures robotically assembled from discrete building blocks. */Credits: NASA/* NASA is seeking proposals from universities for early stage technology development that will support the agency's long-term plans for human exploration of Mars and scientific study of our solar system and beyond. The Early Stage Innovations NASA Research Announcement calls for innovative space ...Continue Reading

May 21, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-079*Media Accreditation Opens for Launch of Ocean-Measuring Satellite*  IN May 2013, technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, performed a practice run of the mechanical integration sequence used to mate the Jason-3 spacecraft's Advanced Microwave Radiometer instrument to the Jason-3 satellite. The radiometer is one of three NASA-built instruments that are integral components of Jason-3. It measures radiation from Earth's surface at three freque ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 21 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 141 Issued at 0030Z on 21 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2342 N18W92 096 0010 Bxo 10 01 Beta 2344 S10W67 073 0010 Cro 03 01 Beta 2346 S06W55 ...Continue Reading

May 20, 2015 For users of the "GHRSST Level 2P Global Skin Sea Surface Temperature from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite created by the NOAA Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO)” dataset (http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/VIIRS_NPP-OSPO-L2P-v2.3) we are ingesting and making available a new version.  This new version 2.4 can be accessed via FTP  from the following URL: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/O ...Continue Reading

May 20, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-078*NASA Opens Media Accreditation for Next SpaceX Station Resupply Launch* A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft on the sixth commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. */Credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett /* Media accreditation is open for the June 26 launch of NASA's next commercial cargo resupply mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...Continue Reading