Sept. 07, 2011 Dwayne Brown/Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/2087 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov beth.dickey-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-186 NASA ANNOUNCES MEDIA TELECONFERENCE ABOUT SATELLITE RE-ENTRY WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 9, to discuss the anticipated re-entry of the agency's decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS). Re-entry is expected late this month o ...Continue Reading

Sep. 07, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Susan Hendrix Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-7745 susan.m.hendrix@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-291 NASA SPACECRAFT OBSERVES NEW CHARACTERISTICS OF SOLAR FLARES WASHINGTON -- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has provided scientists new information about solar flares indicating an increase in stre ...Continue Reading

Sep. 07, 2011 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-188 NASA TV WILL BROADCAST SOYUZ LANDING ON SEPT. 15 HOUSTON -- NASA Television will broadcast the return to Earth of three crew members who have called the International Space Station (ISS) home for more than five months. On Sept. 15, Expedition 28 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev, NASA Flight Engineer ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1842 Issue Time: 2011 Sep 07 1415 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2011 Sep 07 1400 UTC Station: GOES13 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscalesThank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or update the personal information in your account, go to the Product Subscription Site. Please do not use the from address for cor ...Continue Reading

There is 1 message totalling 88 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. NASA LANDS IN COLORADO WITH INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EVENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 16:29:39 -0500 From: info@JSC.NASA.GOV Subject: NASA LANDS IN COLORADO WITH INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EVENTS Sept. 6, 2011 Kylie Clem/Tammie Letroise-Brown Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Report #JO11-018 NASA LANDS IN COLORADO WITH INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION EVENTS ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 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 250 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1277 N18W93 299 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1281 S18W51 258 0010 Bxo 03 02 Beta 1283 N14W18 ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY BULLETIN #11- 3 2011 September 06 at 05:44 p.m. MDT (2011 September 06 2344 UTC) **** STRONG RADIO BLACKOUT EVENT **** NOAA Region 1283 produced and R3 (Strong) Radio Blackout event on September 6 at 2220 UTC (6:20 p.m. EDT). The event may include an earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection, but at this early point in the eruption it is too soon to be more specific. Additional informa ...Continue Reading

Sept. 6, 2011 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov Rebecca Strecker Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 228-688-3249 rebecca.a.strecker@nasa.gov RELEASE: C11-038 NASA AWARDS FACILITY OPERATING SERVICES CONTRACT AWARD TERM PERIOD 2 WASHINGTON -- NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi has exercised award term period 2 of the Facility Operating Services Contract (FOSC) with Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn. Th ...Continue Reading

Sept. 6, 2011 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-290 NASA CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST BRAUN RETURNING TO GEORGIA TECH WASHINGTON -- Bobby Braun, who served as the first NASA chief technologist in a decade, will leave the agency in October to return to the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Braun's service at NASA was possible through a two-year intergovernmental personnel agreement with Georgia Tech. During h ...Continue Reading

Sep. 06, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Allard Beutel Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 allard.beutel@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-185 NASA HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE ON SPACE STATION NATIONAL LAB AWARD CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will hold a news conference at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 9, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the organization that will manage the portion of the International Space Station operated as a U.S. national l ...Continue Reading