September 29, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111josh.byerly@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-292 * * NASA Partner Orbital Sciences Completes First Flight to Space Station as Astronauts Capture Cygnus Spacecraft * Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) used a robotic arm to capture and attach a Cygnus cargo resupply spacecraft Sunday, marking several spaceflight firsts for NASA and ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 29 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 272 Issued at 0030Z on 29 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 28 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 28/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1846 S17W70 059 0150 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1850 N10W46 035 0100 Dso 08 07 Beta-Gamma 1853 N1 ...Continue Reading

There are 2 messages totalling 111 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Updated Cygnus Rendezvous Date, NASA TV Coverage for Orbital Sciences' Demonstration Mission to International Space Station 2. Astronauts Practice Launching in NASA's New Orion Spacecraft ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:46:47 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: Updated Cygnus Rendezvous Date, NASA TV Coverage for Orbital Sciences' Demonstration Mission to Interna ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 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 271 Issued at 0030Z on 28 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 27 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 27/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1846 S17W56 062 0120 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1850 N09W30 036 0140 Dao 08 10 Beta-Gamma 1852 S2 ...Continue Reading

September 27, 2013 Stephen Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4787cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov * CONTRACT RELEASE C13-047 * * NASA Awards Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center Contract * NASA has selected the University of Alaska at Fairbanks to develop and operate the Synthetic Aperture Radar Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for NASA’s Earth Observing System D ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- EARTHQUAKE BIRTHS NEW ISLAND OFF PAKISTAN On September 24, 2013, a violent earthquake rocked the Balochistan province of Pakistan and disturbed the land and seafloor surface. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82146&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) image from Sep 26, 2013 (Posted on Sep 27, 2013 10:36 AM ...Continue Reading

September 27, 2013 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5227rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-300 * * Astronauts Practice Launching in NASA's New Orion Spacecraft * Astronauts Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman try out a prototype display and control system inside an Orion spacecraft mockup at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston during the first ascent and abort simulations for the program. For the firs ...Continue Reading

September 27, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111josh.byerly@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-157 * * Updated Cygnus Rendezvous Date, NASA TV Coverage for Orbital Sciences' Demonstration Mission to International Space Station * NASA and its International Space Station partners have approved a Sunday, Sept. 29, target arrival of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft on its demonstration cargo ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Sep 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 270 Issued at 0030Z on 27 Sep 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 26 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 26/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1846 S18W44 059 0130 Hsx 03 01 Alpha 1850 N10W18 033 0180 Dao 07 16 Beta 1852 S21W70 ...Continue Reading

September 26, 2013 Dear PO.DAAC Data User, Recently, the CFI Group on behalf of NASA sent out an email requesting your participation in a survey of users of NASA Earth science data and services, which includes the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC).  People have reported they did not receive any emails from the CFI group.  While this issue is being investigated, we are providing the following link to the survey to encourage every ...Continue Reading