July 07, 2011 J.D. Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979 j.d.harrington@nasa.gov/michael.braukus@nasa.gov Amber Philman Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 amber.n.philman@nasa.gov Cassie Kloberdanz Sierra Nevada Space Systems, Sparks, Nev. 720-407-3264 cassie.kloberdanz@sncorp.com RELEASE: 11-221 NASA SIGNS COMMERCIAL SPACE AGREEMENT WITH SIERRA NEVADA CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is entering into an agreement with Sier ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 1816 Issue Time: 2011 Jul 07 1446 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2011 Jul 07 1415 UTC Station: GOES15 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

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jul 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 188 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Jul 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1243 N15W46 353 0100 Dai 07 14 Beta-Gamma 1244 N14W79 026 0050 Dso 03 02 Beta IA. H- ...Continue Reading

July 06, 2011 Dwayne C. Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Jia-Rui Cook Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-354-0850 jccook@jpl.nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-220 CASSINI SPACECRAFT CAPTURES IMAGES AND SOUNDS OF BIG SATURN STORM WASHINGTON -- Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth. On Dec. 5, 2010, Cassini first dete ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FLOODING IN MEXICO Flood water lingered along the coast of Mexico near Tampico in the wake of Tropical Storm Arlene. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=51280&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jul 05, 2011 (Posted on Jul 06, 2011 12:51 PM) FLOODING IN THE MISSOURI BASIN Record snowmelt and intermittent heavy ra ...Continue Reading

July 06, 2011 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov RELEASE: 11-219 NASA EDUCATION FORUM TO FOCUS ON STUDENTS' VISION FOR FUTURE WASHINGTON -- NASA will host an education forum with more than 250 college students on Thursday, July 7 at the Marriott World Center in Orlando. The event will focus on their vision for the future of America's space program. The forum will take place one day before the final space shuttle launch an ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2011 Jul 06 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 187 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Jul 2011 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Jul I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1243 N16W34 354 0070 Cso 06 06 Beta 1244 N15W67 027 0060 Dso 05 04 Beta-Gamma IA. H- ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #11- 31 2011 July 05 at 11:38 a.m. MDT (2011 July 05 1738 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For June 27-July 3 No space weather storms were observed Outlook For July 6-12 No space weather storms are expected Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other ob ...Continue Reading

July 05, 2011 Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0321 trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 410-338-4514 villard@stsci.edu RELEASE: 11-217 NASA'S HUBBLE MAKES ONE MILLIONTH SCIENCE OBSERVATION WASHINGTON -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth science observation during a search for water in an exoplane ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 643 2011 Jul 5 Somerville, MA, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station -------------------- Endeavour undocked from the Station at 0355 UTC on May 30. The Shuttle then performed a re-rendezvous with the Station, coming to a distance of 290m at 0822 UTC. The rendezvous demonstrated a coelliptic approach, familiar from Apollo days but not normally used with Shuttle, and tested the STORRM l ...Continue Reading