July 3, 2013 The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the Jason-1 Project Team. Contact was lost with the Jason-1 spacecraft at some point after the last good downlink at 0114 UTC on 21 June 2013. At the time of the last contact, the spacecraft its payload instruments were in nominal health and there were no indications of any alarms or anomalies. At the beginning of the next contact at 0249 UTC, no downlink signal was detected.&nbs ...Continue Reading

July 10, 2013 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Michael Curie Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-861-4769michael.curie@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-212 * * NASA Announces Education Research Program Award Recipients * WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded $10.5 million to colleges and universities to conduct research and technology development in areas important to the agency's mission, develop faculty and support higher education students. Fourteen proposals wer ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2043 Issue Time: 2013 Jul 10 1720 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2013 Jul 10 1655 UTC Station: GOES-13 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 Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or upd ...Continue Reading

July 10, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov * RELEASE 12-211 * * NASA Satellite Provides First View of the Solar System's Tail * WASHINGTON -- Like a comet, the solar system has a tail. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has for the first time mapped out the structure of this tail, which is shaped like a four-leaf clover. Scientists describe the tail, called the heliotail, based on the first three years of IBEX imagery in a paper published in ...Continue Reading

July 10, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100jbuck@nasa.gov Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111jay.bolden@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-208 * * NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members * HOUSTON -- NASA and its international partners have appointed three International Space Station crew members to round out future expeditions to the orbiting laboratory.  NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Japanese Exploration Aerospace Agency (JAXA) astr ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 46 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA Invites Media to View Orion Heat Shield Near Boston ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 16:49:09 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA Invites Media to View Orion Heat Shield Near Boston July 9, 2013 Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-1403 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #M13-105 NASA Invites Media to View Orion Heat Shield N ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jul 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 191 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Jul 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1784 S16W76 055 0010 Axx 05 03 Alpha 1785 S12W31 009 0480 Ekc 13 42 Beta-Gamma-Delta 1 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (09 July 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ * Painted Glaciers http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/PaintedGlaciers/?src=eoa-features Bits of soot, dust, pollen, ash, salt, sand, and rocks coat the world's ice. NASA scientist Kimberly Casey is using satellites to analyze the debris so she can answer some key questions about glaciers. -------------------- Latest Images: ...Continue Reading

July 9, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-1403brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-105 * * NASA Invites Media to View Orion Heat Shield Near Boston * WASHINGTON -- NASA officials will visit Textron Defense Systems in Wilmington, Mass., Wednesday, July 17, to view progress being made on the heat shield for the agency's Orion spacecraft. Orion will launch on Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) ...Continue Reading

July 9, 2013 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-209 * * Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover * WASHINGTON -- The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for future human exploration of the Red Planet, according to a report provided to the agency. The 154-page document was prepared by the Mars 2020 Science Definitio ...Continue Reading