June 21, 2011 J.D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.braukus@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones/Elizabeth Zubritsky Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039/301-614-5438 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov/elizabeth.a.zubritsky@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-192 NASA DETAILS ACHIEVEMENTS OF LUNAR SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- NASA has declared full mission success for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). LRO changed our view ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #11- 29 2011 June 21 at 11:02 a.m. MDT (2011 June 21 1702 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For June 13-19 No space weather storms were observed. Outlook For June 22-28 A category G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm is expected on 24 June with a chance for isolated G2 (Moderate) periods due to the arrival of a halo CME observed early on 21 June. Data used to pro ...Continue Reading

June 21, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-127 NASA BRIEFS MEDIA ON AIR QUALITY RESEARCH FLIGHTS OVER MARYLAND WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, June 23, to preview the upcoming series of aircraft research flights over the Baltimore-Washington traffic corridor to study urban air pollution. NASA research satellites monitor many air pollution components, but it is a ...Continue Reading

June 21, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-385-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-195 NASA SETS SAIL ON SECOND LEG OF ARCTIC OCEAN RESEARCH VOYAGE WASHINGTON -- Scientists embark this week from Alaska on the second and final campaign of a NASA field campaign to study how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. On June 25, the ICESCAPE mission, or "Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacifi ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jun 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 172 Issued at 0030Z on 21 Jun 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 20 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 20/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1236 N17W07 166 0230 Esi 12 07 Beta-Gamma 1239 N18E13 146 0010 Bxo 03 05 Beta 1240 S ...Continue Reading

June 20, 2011 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov Cynthia M. O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 240-684-0821 cynthia.m.ocarroll@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C11-027 NASA AWARDS SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT AND ENGINEERING SERVICES CONTRACT GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA has modified a letter contract with ASRC Research and Technology Solutions of Greenbelt, Md., for Spectrum Management, Engineering Services and Programmatic Resource Management Support. This ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- MONUMENT FIRE, ARIZONA The Monument Fire started on June 12, 2011, in the extremely dry grasses, brush, and forests of southern Arizona's Huachuca Mountains. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51116&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jun 19, 2011 (Posted on Jun 20, 2011 1:17 PM) -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new ...Continue Reading

June 20, 2011 Rachel Hoover/Jill Dunbar Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-4789 rachel.hoover@nasa.gov / jill.dunbar@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-194 NASA'S PLEIADES SUPERCOMPUTER RANKS AMONG WORLD'S FASTEST WASHINGTON -- NASA's largest supercomputer is seventh on the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful, high-performance computers. The announcement was made at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Pleiades, located at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Fie ...Continue Reading

June 20, 2011 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook/Priscilla Vega Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850/1357 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov/priscilla.r.vega@jpl.nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-126 NASA HOSTS BRIEFING TO PREVIEW SPACECRAFT VISIT OF LARGE ASTEROID WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 23, to discuss the Dawn spacecraft's year-long visit to the large asteroid Vesta. The missio ...Continue Reading

June 20, 2011 Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa.gov Eric T. Mazzacone Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Washington darpapublicaffairsoffice@darpa.mil RELEASE: 11-189 NASA AND DARPA OFFER STUDENTS CHANCE TO SUPPORT FUTURE MISSIONS WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are offering high school students the opportunity to design experiments that will be tested in space. The 2011 Zero Robotics challenge is a continuation and expansi ...Continue Reading