Text Size var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 28, 2014 * NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for CYGNSS Mission * NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., to launch the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission. CYGNSS will launch in October 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from Orb ...Continue Reading

March 28, 2014 All GHRSST NAVO datasets including VIIRS L2P and AVHRRxx_L and AVHRRxx_G are now being ingested in a normal fashion by the PO.DAAC.  The data transfer anomaly first detected on Feb 5-6, 2014 (http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/announcements/2014-02-10_Sporadic_GHRSST_data_flow) has been resolved.  It was determined to be data provider localized network issue that took some time for NASA and NAVO/Stennis Space Center engineers to pinpoint. An attempt ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 695 2014 Mar 28 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station --------------------------- Soyuz TMA-10M undocked from Poisk at 0002 UTC Mar 11, landing in Kazakhstan at 0324 UTC with astronauts Kotov, Hopkins and Ryazanskiy. The undocking marked the end of Expedition 38 and the beginning of Expedition 39, with Koichi Wakata becoming the first Ja ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Mar 28 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 87 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Mar 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2010 S15W68 204 0080 Dao 10 17 Beta-Gamma 2014 S15W32 168 0290 Ehi 15 35 Beta-Gamma 201 ...Continue Reading

March 27, 2014 The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the KNMI Scatterometer Team. Please direct all related inquiries to scat@knmi.nl. Dear wind product user, The ASCAT data flows were restored yesterday evening. Metop-A ASCAT data have been unavailable for sensing time from 12:00 to 15:12. Metop-B ASCAT data have been unavailable for sensing time from 12:54 to 13:42. Best regards, Anton KNMI Scatterometer Team http://ww ...Continue Reading

Text Size var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 27, 2014 * NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Spots Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets *  The images above show -- before and after filtering -- comet C/2013 A1, also known as Siding Spring, as captured by Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science I ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 116 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. High School 'Final Five' Compete for Out-of-This-World Test on Orion 2. NASA TV to Air Arrival of New Space Station Crew Thursday ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:47:36 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: High School 'Final Five' Compete for Out-of-This-World Test on Orion March 26, 2014 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Ann Marie Trotta Headq ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Mar 27 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 86 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Mar 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2010 S14W54 204 0130 Dai 09 21 Beta-Gamma 2014 S14W19 168 0200 Esi 12 26 Beta-Gamma 201 ...Continue Reading

Text Size var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 26, 2014 * High School 'Final Five' Compete for Out-of-This-World Test on Orion * Five teams of high school student engineers have made it to the final round in a competition to build and test designs for radiation shields for NASA's new Orion spacecraft. The competition is part of the Exploration Design Challenge (ED ...Continue Reading

Text Size var addthis_config = addthis_config||{}; //addthis_config.services_exclude = 'facebook'; // Needed so that the preferred buttons don't show a duplicate Facebook share option March 26, 2014 * NASA Awards Contract for Intelligent Systems Research * NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. (SGT) of Greenbelt, Md., for a contract for Intelligent Systems Research and Development Support services at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. This cost-plus, fixed-fee c ...Continue Reading