Sep. 23, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-058 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR JPSS-1 SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- NASA on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a sole source contract for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo. This is a fixed price contract of $248 million with a performance period through Feb. 1, 2015. Under this contract Ba ...Continue Reading

Sep. 23, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-057 NASA AWARDS RADIOMETER AND GROUND SYSTEM CONTRACTS FOR JPSS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded two sole source contracts on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the common ground system and a scientific instrument on the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1). JPSS is the restructured civilian portion of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satelli ...Continue Reading

Sep. 23, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-058 NASA AWARDS CONTRACT FOR JPSS-1 SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON -- NASA on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a sole source contract for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo. This is a fixed price contract of $248 million with a performance period through Feb. 1, 2015. Under this contract Ba ...Continue Reading

Sep. 23, 2010 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-057 NASA AWARDS RADIOMETER AND GROUND SYSTEM CONTRACTS FOR JPSS WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded two sole source contracts on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the common ground system and a scientific instrument on the first Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1). JPSS is the restructured civilian portion of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satelli ...Continue Reading

Sep. 23, 2010 Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601 ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov Jenna C Maddix Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-0185 jenna.c.maddix@nasa.gov MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-134 NASA ASTRONAUTS ON SPACE STATION CONNECT WITH HOUSTON STUDENTS HOUSTON -- International Space Station astronaut Shannon Walker will speak on Wednesday, Sept. 29 to students from three schools she attended while growing up in Houston. Students from Parker Elementary and Westbury High School will join t ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- PLANCHóN-PETEROA VOLCANO Beginning on September 6, 2010, Chile's ice-covered Planchón-Peteroa Volcano has erupted a series of small ash and gas clouds. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45943&src=nha *** ALI(EO-1) im ...Continue Reading

Sep. 22, 2010 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-228 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS DISCUSS SPACE STATION EXTENSION AND USE WASHINGTON -- The International Space Station partner agencies met Tuesday, Sept. 21, by videoconference to discuss continuation of space station operations into the next decade and its use as a research laboratory. The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) meeting included senior representatives from NASA, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), ...Continue Reading

Sep. 22, 2010 Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 michael.curie@nasa.gov RELEASE: 10-228 NASA SELECTS HIGH SCHOOLS TO COMPETE IN NEW CHALLENGE; WINNING SOFTWARE DESIGNS WILL PROGRAM SATELLITES ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., have selected 24 high schools to participate in a new science, technology, engineering, and math education program. The teams will design software to program small satellites abo ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRES IN UTAH Dry weather and high winds fueled large fires in Utah in September 2010. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45937&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Sep 21, 2010 (Posted on Sep 22, 2010 12:59 PM) * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=45910&src=nha *** Digital Camera(ISS) ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 632 2010 Sep 22 Somerville, MA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shuttle and Station ------------------- Soyuz TMA-18, Soyuz TMA-19, Progress M-05M, and Progress M-07M are docked to the ISS. On Aug 11 Wheelock and Caldwell-Dyson made a second spacewalk from the Quest airlock to change out the S1 pump module. The old pump was removed from the truss and carried to a storage point, the POA (Payload and ...Continue Reading