March 21, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 brandi.k.dean@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-050 NASA INVITES MEDIA INSIDE WORLD'S LARGEST VACUUM CHAMBER HOUSTON -- The world's largest thermal-vacuum chamber will be open to news media at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, April 4. Upgrades are being made to the facility to prepare it for testing the agency's James Webb Space Telescope. Scie ...Continue Reading

March 20, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-079 PLANCK MISSION BRINGS UNIVERSE INTO SHARP FOCUS WASHINGTON -- The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins. Planck is a European Space Agen ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1994 Issue Time: 2013 Mar 21 0657 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 1993 Begin Time: 2013 Mar 20 1720 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1520 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

Jonathan's Space Report No. 676 2013 Mar 20 Somerville, MA USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Space Station ---------------------------- Expedition 34 continued during early March with commander Kevin Ford and flight engineers FE-1 Oleg Novitskiy, FE-2 Yevgeniy Tarelkin, FE-4 Roman Romanenko, FE-5 Chris Hadfield, and FE-6 Tom Marshburn. Ferry ship Soyuz TMA-06M was docked at the Poisk module; Soyuz TM ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Mar 21 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 80 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Mar 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1692 N09W71 077 0340 Dki 05 08 Beta 1695 N10W51 057 0130 Dao 06 04 Beta 1699 S15W87 0 ...Continue Reading

March 20, 2013 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh.byerly@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-052 NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS TO LAUNCH AND DOCK THE SAME DAY HOUSTON -- Three new crew members are set to launch to the International Space Station on a six-hour flight to travel from the launch pad to their destination. Chris Cassidy of NASA, along with Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander M ...Continue Reading

March 20, 2013 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov George Hale Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-614-5853 george.r.hale@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-081 NASA BEGINS NEW SEASON OF ARCTIC ICE SCIENCE FLIGHTS WASHINGTON -- NASA's Operation IceBridge scientists have begun another season of research activity over Arctic ice sheets and sea ice with the first of a series of science flights from Greenland completed on Wednesday. A specially equipped P-3B res ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1993 Issue Time: 2013 Mar 20 1745 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2013 Mar 20 1720 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

March 20, 2013 David Weaver/Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600 david.s.weaver@nasa.gov / bob.jacobs@nasa.gov RELEASE: 13-082 NASA ADMINISTRATOR CONGRATULATES APOLLO ENGINE RECOVERY TEAM WASHINGTON -- The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the successful recovery of Apollo Saturn V first stage engines announced Wednesday by Jeff Bezos, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the aerospace company Blue Origin and Amazon.com. " ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Mar 20 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 79 Issued at 0030Z on 20 Mar 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 19 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 19/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1692 N09W57 077 0240 Dai 04 05 Beta 1695 N10W37 057 0150 Dao 06 06 Beta 1696 N05W77 0 ...Continue Reading