March 24, 2016 MEDIA ADVISORY M16-032*Media Invited to See NASA's Green Propulsion Spacecraft*  An artist's rendering of NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission payload in flight aboard the Ball Aerospace BCP-100 spacecraft. */Credits: Ball Aerospace/* Media are invited to see a NASA spacecraft that is safer on the ground and more efficient in space during a tour March 31 at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado, showcasing NASA's Green Propulsion Inf ...Continue Reading

  March 24, 2016 MEDIA ADVISORY M16-031*Russian Space Station Cargo Ship Launch, Docking to Air on NASA TV* NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress 63P, to resupply the International Space Station. Launch of the spacecraft carrying three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 47 crew is scheduled for 12:23 p.m. EDT (10:23 p.m. Baikonur time) on Thursday, March 31, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazak ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2016 Mar 24 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 84 Issued at 0030Z on 24 Mar 2016 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2524 N15W16 277 0210 Eso 13 04 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 23/2 ...Continue Reading

  March 23, 2016 RELEASE 16-039*NASA Gets Down to Earth This Year With Globe-Spanning Expeditions* NASA takes you on a world tour with this animation as we kick off major new field campaigns to study regions of critical change from land, sea and air. */Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jefferson Beck/* NASA is sending scientists around the world in 2016 – from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific – to delve into challenging ...Continue Reading

  March 23, 2016 RELEASE 16-039*NASA Gets Down to Earth This Year With Globe-Spanning Expeditions* NASA takes you on a world tour with this animation as we kick off major new field campaigns to study regions of critical change from land, sea and air. */Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jefferson Beck/* NASA is sending scientists around the world in 2016 – from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific – to delve into challenging ...Continue Reading

  March 23, 2016 RELEASE 16-034*NASA Announces Dates for One of World’s Largest Hackathons* NASA’s open innovation incubator, the International Space Apps Challenge, will take place April 22-24. The global main stage for this year’s event will be in Pasadena, California, with local events taking place simultaneously in 193 locations spanning 72 countries. On April 23 and 24, participants are asked to develop mobile applications, software, hardware, data vi ...Continue Reading

  March 23, 2016 RELEASE 16-036*NASA Sends Fire, Meteor Experiments to International Space Station on Commercial Cargo Spacecraft* Scientific investigations of fire in microgravity and grippers inspired by geckos are among the nearly 7,500 pounds of cargo headed to the International Space Station aboard an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft, along with equipment to support some 250 other experiments and studies aboard the world’s only orbital laboratory.  An Atlas V launch veh ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2016 Mar 23 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 83 Issued at 0030Z on 23 Mar 2016 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 22 Mar I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 22/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2524 N15W03 277 0240 Eso 12 03 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 22/2 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (22 March 2016) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tournament Earth 2016: Semifinals - vote now! Voting is now open for the semifinal round of Tournament: Earth. The last four images are ready to face off. Which images will make it to the finals? Vote before the polls close at 4pm ET on Friday, March 25. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/TournamentEarth/?src=eoa-ann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2340 Issue Time: 2016 Mar 22 1424 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2016 Mar 22 1355 UTC Station: GOES-13 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscr ...Continue Reading