Nov. 8, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-390 NEW SPACE SENSOR AS A HOSTED PAYLOAD TO TRACK AIR POLLUTION ACROSS NORTH AMERICA WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected a proposal from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., to build the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across the North American continent hourly during daytime. The instrument, to be completed in 2017 at a cost of not mor ...Continue Reading

Nov. 08, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-388 NASA SELECTS AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESSES FOR CONTINUATION OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 39 small business proposals to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The SBIR program partners with small businesses to catalyze efforts to develop new technologies to support NASA's tec ...Continue Reading

Nov. 8, 2012 Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-391 NASA, ESA USE EXPERIMENTAL INTERPLANETARY INTERNET TO TEST ROBOT FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully have used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet to control an educational rover from the International Space Station. The experiment used NASA's Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to tran ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 45 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA ASTRONAUT TO DISCUSS HIS RESIDENCY IN SPACE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 10:30:00 -0600 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT TO DISCUSS HIS RESIDENCY IN SPACE November 7, 2012 Dana Davis Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-0933 Report #JA12-023 NASA ASTRONAUT TO DISCUSS HIS RESIDENCY IN SPACE HOUSTON--NASA astronaut Don Pettit, a veteran of three space ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Nov 08 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 313 Issued at 0030Z on 08 Nov 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 07 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 07/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1605 N18W18 340 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1606 S15E04 318 0010 Bxo 04 03 Beta 1607 N12W74 ...Continue Reading

Nov. 7, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-213 NASA CEREMONY TO RENAME TWIN EARTH RADIATION BELT SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- Media representatives are invited to attend a ceremony to announce the renaming of NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP). The event takes place Nov. 9 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 pm EST, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Building 200, 11101 Johns Hopkins Rd., Laure ...Continue Reading

Nov. 07, 2012 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Angela Storey Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 angela.d.storey@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-389 KEEPING THE WHEELS TURNING: REGISTRATION OPEN FOR 20TH ANNUAL NASA GREAT MOONBUGGY RACE HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Registration is now open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college and university students around the world to bui ...Continue Reading

Nov. 7, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov Kathy Barnstorff Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 757-864-9886 kathy.barnstorff@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-212 NASA HOLDS INNOVATIVE ADVANCED CONCEPTS SYMPOSIUM NOV. 14-15 WASHINGTON -- The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program's 2012 Fall Symposium will be held Nov. 14-15, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Hampton, Va. NIAC examines early stage concepts that may ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Nov 07 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 312 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Nov 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Nov I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1605 N18W04 339 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1606 S15E18 316 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha 1607 N12W61 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (06 November 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Fires and Smoke in Northwestern India http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79630&src=eoa-iotd * Comparing the Winds of Sandy and Katrina http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79626&src=eoa-iotd * Baltimore at Night http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79616&src=eoa-iotd * A New Angle o ...Continue Reading