:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Sep 01 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 244 Issued at 0030Z on 01 Sep 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 31 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 31/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1274 N19W72 358 0030 Hrx 01 01 Alpha 1277 N18W14 300 0060 Hsx 01 01 Alpha 1279 N13W0 ...Continue Reading

Aug. 31, 2011 Stephen Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Cynthia O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 240-684-0821 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-037 NASA SELECTS CONTRACTOR FOR ICESAT-2 SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Orbital Science Corporation of Dulles, Va., to build the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) spacecraft. Under the terms of the $135 mil ...Continue Reading

Aug. 31, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 240-684-0821 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-282 NASA EARTH-OBSERVING SATELLITE ARRIVES IN CALIFORNIA FOR LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, Aug. 30, NASA's next Earth-observing research satellite arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to begin preparations for an October launch. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmen ...Continue Reading

Aug. 31, 2011 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-182 NASA SETS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS HOUSTON -- NASA Television will broadcast a news conference with the two agency astronauts aboard the International Space Station at 8:05 a.m. CDT on Tuesday, Sept. 6. Reporters may ask questions in person from NASA's Johnson Space Center ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 3 new images) -- HURRICANE IRENE Irene formed as a tropical storm east of the Leeward Islands on August 20, 2011. By August 24, the storm had strengthened to a Category 3 hurricane. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51966&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Aug 30, 2011 (Posted on Aug 31, 2011 10:40 AM) * http://earthob ...Continue Reading

Aug. 31, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov Megan Watzke Chandra X-ray Center, Cambridge, Mass. 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu RELEASE: 11-278 NASA'S CHANDRA FINDS NEAREST PAIR OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES WASHINGTON -- Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. Approximately 160 million light years from Earth, the pair is the nearest known such phen ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Aug 31 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 243 Issued at 0030Z on 31 Aug 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 30 Aug I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 30/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1274 N18W59 358 0010 Bxo 04 05 Beta 1277 N18W00 299 0050 Hsx 02 02 Alpha 1279 N13E07 ...Continue Reading

Aug. 30, 2011 Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979/5241 michael.j.braukus@nasa.gov/j.d.harrington@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-280 SPACE AGENCIES MEET TO DISCUSS A GLOBAL EXPLORATION ROADMAP WASHINGTON -- Senior managers representing 10 space agencies from around the world met in Kyoto, Japan today to advance the Global Exploration Roadmap for coordinated space exploration. During the past year, the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (ISECG) has developed a lo ...Continue Reading

Aug. 30, 2011 Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761 sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-281 NASA CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST BOBBY BRAUN STATEMENT ABOUT NRC INTERIM REPORT ON NASA'S DRAFT SPACE TECHNOLOGY ROADMAPS WASHINGTON -- NASA Chief Technologist Bobby Braun issued the following statement about the National Research Council's (NRC) Interim Report on NASA's Draft Space Technology Roadmaps: "NASA commends and thanks the NRC and its Committee members on their Interim Report on NASA's Draf ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRE IN SOUTHERN VIRGINIA Lightning ignited a large wildfire in southern Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp on August 4, 2011. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51941&src=nha *** TM(Landsat 5) image from Aug 15, 2011 (Posted on Aug 29, 2011 3:18 PM) -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- HURRICANE IREN ...Continue Reading