Jan. 26, 2012 Joshua Buck Headquarters,Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kyle.j.herring@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C12-002 NASA AWARDS SAFETY AND MISSION ASSURANCE CONTRACT EXTENSION HOUSTON -- NASA has exercised two six-month options to the agency's Safety and Mission Assurance Support Services Contract with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of San Diego for the Johnson Space Center in Houston. T ...Continue Reading

Jan. 26, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Michele Johnson Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-6982 michele.johnson@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-032 NASA'S KEPLER ANNOUNCES 11 PLANETARY SYSTEMS HOSTING 26 PLANETS MOFFET FIELD, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified planets and triple the number of stars known to have more than one p ...Continue Reading

Jan. 26, 2012 Sarah Ramsey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1694 sarah.ramsey@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-017 NASA DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR VISITS AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY IN AN AMERICAN ECONOMY BUILT TO LAST WASHINGTON -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will visit Aurora Flight Sciences in Manassas, Va., on Jan. 27 to highlight how government can partner with small business to help create the jobs of the future through investment in scie ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- TROPICAL CYCLONE FUNSO On January 23, 2012, Tropical Cyclone Funso raged over the Mozambique Channel. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=77029&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 25, 2012 (Posted on Jan 25, 2012 3:03 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural H ...Continue Reading

Jan. 26, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-016 NASA HOSTS BRIEFING ON NEW OBSERVATIONS OF INTERSTELLAR MATTER WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a Science Update at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, to discuss new analysis from NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft of material from outside our solar system and the interstellar boundary region that surrounds our home in space. The interstellar boundary region shields our solar sy ...Continue Reading

Jan. 25, 2012 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Rani Gran Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2483 rani.c.gran@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-026 NASA RENAMES EARTH-OBSERVING MISSION IN HONOR OF SATELLITE PIONEER WASHINGTON -- NASA has renamed its newest Earth-observing satellite in honor of the late Verner E. Suomi, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin who is recognized widely as "the father of satellite meteorology." The announcement was made J ...Continue Reading

Jan. 25, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-4673 whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-028 NASA'S NUSTAR SHIPS TO VANDENBERG AHEAD OF MARCH 14 LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays from objects ranging from our sun to gi ...Continue Reading

Jan. 25, 2012 Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Nicholas A. Veronico Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4589 office, 650-224-8726 cell nveronico@sofia.usra.edu RELEASE: 12-027 EDUCATORS SELECTED TO FLY ON NASA'S SOFIA AIRBORNE OBSERVATORY MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Twenty-six educators from the United States have been selected for research flights aboard SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. As participants in the Airborne ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2012 Jan 26 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 26 Issued at 0030Z on 26 Jan 2012 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 25 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 25/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1401 N16W66 215 0050 Cso 06 06 Beta 1402 N26W60 209 0200 Dai 07 06 Beta-Gamma 1405 N12W ...Continue Reading

Jan. 25, 2012 Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/5241 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov / j.d.harrington@nasa.gov Jennifer Stanfield Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 jennifer.m.stanfield@nasa.gov Rebecca Strecker Stennis Space Center, Miss. 228-688-3249 rebecca.a.strecker@nasa.gov RELEASE: 12-030 NASA'S J-2X ENGINE KICKS OFF 2012 WITH POWERPACK TESTING BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- A new series of tests on the engine that will help carry humans to deep space ...Continue Reading