*NASA, Boeing Welcome Starliner Spacecraft to Earth, Close Mission* *Sep 07, 2024* *RELEASE 24-113* NASA and Boeing welcomed Starliner back to Earth following the uncrewed spacecraft’s successful landing at 10:01 p.m. MDT Sept. 6, 2024, at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico.  Credit: NASA NASA and Boeing safely returned the uncrewed Starliner spacecraft following its landing at 10:01 p.m. MDT Sept. 6 at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, concluding a three-month flight test to the International Sp ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2024 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 251 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Sep 2024 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 3806 S11W53 219 0170 Dai 08 20 Beta-Gamma-Delta 3808 S10W44 210 ...Continue Reading

NASA Selects Companies for Commercial SmallSat Services Award *Sep 06, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-033* Credit: NASA NASA has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency. The Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program On-Ramp1 Multiple Award contract is a firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract with a maximum value of $476 million, cumulatively amongst all the selected contractors, and a perfor ...Continue Reading

Sept. 6, 2024   *MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-125* * * *NASA to Take Part in Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony* * * NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at NASA Langley Research Center with a globe, or “Celestial Training Device,” in 1962. Credit: NASA / Langley Research Center   NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will represent the agency during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 18, recognizing the women who contributed to th ...Continue Reading

September 6, 2024 Natural Events Latest Images From the Past Dayview archive of natural events Lake Erie Blooms Algal communities flourish in Lake Erie's western basin each summer. Scientists are looking to new NASA technology to better track them from space. (Sep 5, 2024) Southeast China Braces for Yagi After hitting the Philippines, the powerful ...Continue Reading

NASA Sets Coverage for Crew Launch; Trio to Join Expedition 71 *Sep 06, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-123* The Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station with (pictured left to right) NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center NASA astronaut Don Pettit will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan V ...Continue Reading

*NASA Invites Media to Discuss Europa Clipper Mission* * * Sept. 6, 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-124 Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech   NASA will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 9, to provide an update on Europa Clipper, a mission that will study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could be hospitable to life. The teleconference will occur after a key decision point meeting earlier that day regarding next steps for the mission. Audio of the tele ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2024 Sep 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 250 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Sep 2024 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3806 S12W37 217 0280 Ekc 11 39 Beta-Gamma-Delta 3807 S15W86 266 ...Continue Reading

Sep 5, 2024 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System ( CYGNSS) data products from the CYGNSS science team including level 3 merged (MRG) V3.2.1 dataset, level 3 MRG Near Real Time (NRT) V3.2.1 dataset, and daily watermask v3.2 dataset from UC Berkeley. The datasets are provided in netCDF-4 format and extend from 1 August 2018 to the present, and additional descriptions of the data products are documented below: 1. CYGNSS Level 3 MRG Science Data Record V ...Continue Reading

NASA Selects Langley Research Center Support Contractor *Sep 05, 2024* *CONTRACT RELEASE C24-031* Credit: NASA NASA has awarded the Center, Operations Maintenance, and Engineering II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to support operations at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $973.7 million. Following a phase-in period that starts Tuesday, Oct. 1 ...Continue Reading