:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 May 01 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 121 Issued at 0030Z on 01 May 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2334 S19E11 259 0020 Cro 03 04 Beta 2335 S15E76 194 0030 Hsx 02 03 Alpha IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

April 30, 2015 RELEASE 15-080*NASA Administrator Statement on House Authorization Bill * The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the House of Representatives’ NASA authorization bill: "The NASA authorization bill making its way through the House of Representatives guts our Earth science program and threatens to set back generations worth of progress in better understanding our changing climate, and our ability to prepare for and respond to earthquakes, droughts, and storm eve ...Continue Reading

April 30, 2015 RELEASE 15-073*NASA Invests in Hundreds of U.S. Small Businesses to Enable Future Missions* NASA has selected research and technology proposals from 254 small businesses and 39 research institutions in the United States for grants to develop new technologies that will further NASA's journey to Mars. The proposals are solicited, vetted and managed through NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Proposals that lead to the successful d ...Continue Reading

April 30, 2015 RELEASE 15-079*NASA Completes MESSENGER Mission with Expected Impact on Mercury's Surface* A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury’s surface at about 8,750 mph and created a new crater on the planet’s surface. Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have confirmed NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) space ...Continue Reading

April 30, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-069*SpaceX Targets May 6 for Pad Abort Test of New Crew Spacecraft * SpaceX now is targeting Wednesday, May 6, for a pad abort test of its Crew Dragon, a spacecraft under final development and certification through NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The test window will open at 7 a.m. EDT. NASA Television will provide live coverage of the test, which will simulate an emergency abort from a test stand on Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in F ...Continue Reading

April 30, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-069*SpaceX Targets May 6 for Pad Abort Test of New Crew Spacecraft * SpaceX now is targeting Wednesday, May 6, for a pad abort test of its Crew Dragon, a spacecraft under final development and certification through NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The test window will open at 7 a.m. EDT. NASA Television will provide live coverage of the test, which will simulate an emergency abort from a test stand on Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in F ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Apr 30 0228 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 120 Issued at 0030Z on 30 Apr 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 29 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 29/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2327 S08W90 012 0020 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 2333 N22W27 309 0010 Bxo 02 04 Beta IA. H-alpha P ...Continue Reading

April 29, 2015 The RapidScat Project has identified a significant number of L2B Version 1.1 data files that contain erroneously combined data from multiple orbits. As a result, these data files have been removed and are in the process of becoming updated with the corrected files. Please allow several more hours for the missing files to be updated on the FTP site. As a reminder, FTP link to the Version 1.1 data is here: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/rapidscat/L2B12/v1.1/. If yo ...Continue Reading

April 29, 2015 RELEASE 15-075*NASA Awards Research Grants for Minority Serving Institutions * NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected 10 minority serving universities for cooperative agreement awards valued at almost $47 million. Award recipients were selected from 76 proposals after a rigorous peer review by education and technical experts. Each university will receive as much as $1 million per year for a maximum of five years based on the availability of funds and s ...Continue Reading

April 29, 2015 RELEASE 15-078*NASA’s New Horizons Detects Surface Features, Possible Polar Cap on Pluto*  This image of Pluto and it largest moon, Charon, was taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on April 15, 2015. The image is part of several taken between April 12-18, as the spacecraft’s distance from Pluto decreased from about 69 million miles (93 million kilometers) to 64 million miles (104 million kilometers). */Credits: NASA/JHU-APL/SwRI /* For t ...Continue Reading