September 24, 2013 Sarah Ramsey/Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1694 / 202-358-5227sarah.ramsey@nasa.gov / rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-155 * * NASA Hosts Workshop to Discuss Asteroid Initiative Ideas * NASA will host a public workshop to examine and synthesize 96 of the ideas submitted to a Request for Information (RFI) about the agency's asteroid initiative. The workshop will be held Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. The workshop ...Continue Reading

September 24, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Doug LeMere NASA Shared Services Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 228-813-6617douglas.m.lemere@nasa.gov * CONTRACT RELEASE C13-046 * * NASA Awards Contract Modification for Shared Services Center * NASA has exercised the fourth option year under its existing contract with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) of Falls Church, Va. This is a one-year option period for the continuation of financial m ...Continue Reading

September 24, 2013 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730david.steitz@nasa.gov Janet Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov Chris Ford Development Projects Inc., Dayton, Ohio 937-222-4422cford@daytonregion.com * RELEASE 13-285 * * The Challenge is On: Team Registration Open for NASA-DPI Unmanned Aircraft Systems Airspace Operations Challenge * NASA and Development Projects Inc. (DPI) of Dayton, Ohio, have opened regi ...Continue Reading

September 24, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu * RELEASE 13-291 * * NASA's Hubble and Chandra Find Evidence for Densest Nearby Galaxy * Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory and telescopes on the ground may have found the most crowded galaxy in our part of the universe. The ultra-compact dwarf galaxy, known as M60- ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 24 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 267 Issued at 0030Z on 24 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1846 S18W04 059 0150 Hsx 04 01 Alpha 1849 N19W24 079 0080 Dso 09 08 Beta 1850 N08E24 ...Continue Reading

September 23, 2013 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Jennifer Neptune Independent Verification and Validation Facility, Fairmont, W.Va. 304-367-8262jennifer.d.neptune@nasa.gov * CONTRACT RELEASE C13-044 * * NASA Selects Operations and Maintenance Services for West Virginia Site * NASA has selected West Virginia University Research Corporation (WVURC) of Morgantown, W.Va., to provide operations and maintenance services at the agency’s Independent ...Continue Reading

World of Change Update: Devastation and Recovery at Mt. St. Helens The devastation of the May 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens and the gradual recovery of the surrounding landscape is documented in this series of satellite images from 1979—2013. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/sthelens.php?src=nha-ann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ----------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- SUPER TYPHOON USAGI The most powerful tropical cyclone of 2013 passed between Taiwan and the Philippines, then slammed into the southeastern coast of China in late September. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82121&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Sep 22, 2013 (Posted on Sep 23, 2013 11:36 AM) -- FLO ...Continue Reading

September 23, 2013 Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886/757-344-8511kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-293 * * NASA Announces Advanced Composite Research Partnership * NASA has selected six companies from five U.S. states to participate in a government-and-industry partnership to advance composite materials research and certification. The companies are: • Bell Helicopter Text ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2090 Issue Time: 2013 Sep 23 1005 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2089 Begin Time: 2013 Sep 20 1220 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 2906 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading