:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jan 18 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 18 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Jan 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1948 N06W81 046 0040 Hax 02 01 Alpha 1949 S17W46 011 0100 Hax 03 02 Alpha 1952 S33W01 ...Continue Reading

January 17, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-016 * * Media Briefing to Preview Big Year Ahead for NASA Earth Science * NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 22, to outline the agency's Earth science activities planned for 2014, which include five mission launches. The expert panelists for the briefing are: -- Michael Freilich, director, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington -- Julie Robinson, International Space Station chief scientist, NASA's Johnson S ...Continue Reading

January 17, 2014 * RELEASE 14-022 * * NASA Administrator Surveys Agency's Work in Advanced Propulsion Technologies * U.S. Rep. Marcia Kaptur of Ohio, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Glenn Research Center Director Jim Free and U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, also of Ohio, stand before the large space environment simulation chamber inside Glenn’s Electric Propulsion Laboratory. Image Credit: NASA/Bridget Caswell NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland Jan. 1 ...Continue Reading

January 17, 2014 * RELEASE 14-018 * * NASA Commercial Crew Partner SpaceX Tests Dragon Parachute System * Engineers and safety specialists from NASA and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) gathered in Morro Bay, Calif., in late December to demonstrate how the company's Dragon spacecraft's parachute system would function in the event of an emergency on the launch pad or during ascent. The test was part of an optional milestone under NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN CALIFORNIA Fires in California * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82878&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 16, 2014 (Posted on Jan 16, 2014 6:19 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ONGOING ERUPTION OF SINABUNG VOLCANO, INDONESIA Until 2010, Indonesia's Sinabung Volc ...Continue Reading

January 17, 2014 * RELEASE 14-016 * * NASA Searches for Climate Change Clues in the Gateway to the Stratosphere * NASA's Global Hawk 872 on a checkout flight from Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., in preparation for the 2014 ATTREX mission over the western Pacific Ocean. Image Credit: NASA/Tom Miller NASA's uncrewed Global Hawk research aircraft is in the western Pacific region on a mission to track changes in the upper atmosphere and help researchers understand how these changes affec ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2014 Jan 17 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 17 Issued at 0030Z on 17 Jan 2014 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 16 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 16/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1948 N05W68 046 0050 Hax 01 02 Alpha 1949 S17W34 012 0110 Hax 03 02 Alpha 1950 N16W51 ...Continue Reading

January 16, 2014 * MEDIA ADVISORY M14-014 * * NASA, MIT, DARPA Host Fifth Annual Student Robotics Challenge Jan. 17 * NASA will participate in the fifth annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge Friday, Jan. 17, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Mass. The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television beginning at 7:30 a.m. EST. The agency will join in the event with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, MIT, the European Space Agency, the Center for th ...Continue Reading

January 16, 2014 * CONTRACT RELEASE C14-001 * * NASA Awards Contract for Institutional Services at Wallops * NASA has selected LJT & Associates Inc., of Columbia, Md., to perform institutional services at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. The cost plus incentive fee contract, awarded under the Small Business Set Aside Program, is valued at a maximum of $257 million including a core requirement; indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity orders; and three options. The opti ...Continue Reading

January 16, 2014 * RELEASE 14-019 * * NASA Tests Orion Spacecraft Parachute Jettison over Arizona * Engineers testing the parachute system for NASA's Orion spacecraft increased the complexity of their tests Thursday, Jan. 16, adding the jettison of hardware designed to keep the capsule safe during flight. The test was the first to give engineers in-air data on the performance of the system that jettisons Orion's forward bay cover. The cover is a shell that fits over Orion's crew module to protect th ...Continue Reading