July 24, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington                                                                                ...Continue Reading

July 24, 2013 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-231 * * Tenth Parachute Test for NASA's Orion Adds 10,000 Feet of Success * WASHINGTON -- A complicated, high-altitude test Wednesday demonstrated NASA's new Orion spacecraft could land safely even if one of its parachutes failed. The 10th in a series of evaluations to check out the Orion multipurpose crew ...Continue Reading

July 24, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington      202-358-0918stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov * RELEASE M13-117 * * NASA Discusses First IRIS Solar Images in Media Teleconference * WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 25, to present the first images from NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), which was launched June 27 on a mission to study the sun. After its telescope door opened July 17, IRIS's imaging spectrogra ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2057 Issue Time: 2013 Jul 24 1046 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2056 Begin Time: 2013 Jul 10 1655 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1556 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

There is 1 message totalling 54 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA Creates Spacewalk Mishap Investigation Board ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:04:07 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA Creates Spacewalk Mishap Investigation Board July 23, 2013 Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 Report #13-228 NASA Creates Spacewalk Mishap Investigation Board WASHINGT ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Jul 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 205 Issued at 0030Z on 24 Jul 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1793 N20W40 193 0110 Eso 13 05 Beta 1799 S16W04 157 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1800 S07W03 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (23 July 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Views of a Distant Earth http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81702&src=eoa-iotd * Tiny Typhoon? http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81692&src=eoa-iotd * Gravity Waves and Sunglint, Lake Superior http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81650&src=eoa-iotd * Amsterdam, The Netherlands http: ...Continue Reading

July 23, 2013 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-258-1730david.steitz@nasa.gov Rachel Hoover Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789rachel.hoover@nasa.gov * MEDIA ADVISORY M13-116 * * NASA Invites Media to Space Station Astronaut-Robot Test * MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- An astronaut aboard the International Space Station will control NASA's K10 planetary rover at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., from 8-11 a.m. PDT Friday, July 26, and media ...Continue Reading

July 23, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington        202-358-5241j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov Geoffrey Brown Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory 240-228-5618geoffrey.brown@jhuapl.edu * RELEASE 13-229 * * NASA'S Spitzer Observes Gas Emission From Comet Ison * WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely ...Continue Reading

July 23, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington           202-358-1100jbuck@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111josh.byerly@nasa.gov * RELEASE 13-228 * * NASA Creates Spacewalk Mishap Investigation Board * WASHINGTON -- NASA has appointed a board to investigate the July 16 early termination of a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, develop a set of lessons learned from the incident and suggest ways ...Continue Reading