var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 11, 2014 * NASA's Orion Spacecraft Powers through First Integrated System Testing *  Engineers in the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, perform avionics testing on the Orion spacecraft being prepared for its first trip to space later this year. Image Credit: Lockheed Martin&n ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- CYCLONE ITA An intense tropical cyclone blew through Papua New Guinea and Australia's Queensland state in April 2014. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=83486&src=nha *** Image from Apr 11, 2014 (Posted on Apr 11, 2014 1:47 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Apr 11 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 101 Issued at 0030Z on 11 Apr 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2026 S09W72 023 0010 Bxo 02 04 Beta 2027 N13W62 013 0120 Hax 03 01 Alpha 2031 N04W78 ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 10, 2014 * Media Invited to Tour Flight Research Project with NASA Associate Administrator * Media are invited to join NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot at 11:15 a.m. PDT Tuesday, April 15, for a brief update and tour of an aeronautical research project currently underway at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 10, 2014 * Construction to Begin on NASA Spacecraft Set to Visit Asteroid in 2018 * NASA's team that will conduct the first U.S. mission to collect samples from an asteroid has been given the go-ahead to begin building the spacecraft, flight instruments and ground system, and launch support facilities. This determination was ma ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 10, 2014 * NASA's Hubble Extends Stellar Tape Measure 10 Times Farther Into Space *  By applying a technique called spatial scanning to an age-old method for gauging distances called astronomical parallax, scientists now can use NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make precision distance measurements 10 times farther in ...Continue Reading

var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option April 10, 2014 * NASA Signs Agreement with German, Canadian Partners to Test Alternative Fuels *  A heavily instrumented NASA HU-25 Falcon measures chemical components from the larger DC-8's exhaust generated by a 50/50 mix of conventional jet fuel and a plant-derived biofuel, demonstrating the type of work that will be done during ACCES ...Continue Reading

April 10, 2014 The PO.DAAC regrets to inform its users of the discontinuation of data retrieval for its OSCAT Level 2B dataset produced by the QuikSCAT science data systems team at JPL. The OSCAT scatterometer onboard the Oceansat-2 spacecraft experienced failure in its traveling wave tube amplifier (TWTA) toward the end of February 2014. As a result, science data processing of ocean surface wind vector data has permanently ceased. The last available file from the QuikSCAT scienc ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 41 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA Administrator and Media to View New Orion Mission Control Center at Johnson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:27:38 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA Administrator and Media to View New Orion Mission Control Center at Johnson April 9, 2014 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Lauren Worley Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1288 Report #MED ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Apr 10 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 100 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Apr 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Apr I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2026 S10W58 023 0030 Cri 07 09 Beta 2027 N13W48 013 0130 Cao 03 03 Beta 2029 N18W65 ...Continue Reading