October 07, 2015 RELEASE 15-194*NASA Offers Licenses of Patented Technologies to Start-Up Companies* */Credits: NASA/* NASA is unveiling a new opportunity for start-up companies to license patented NASA technology with no up-front payment. The Startup NASA initiative addresses two common problems start-ups face: raising capital and securing intellectual property rights. Aimed at encouraging the growth of high-tech businesses and advancing American innovation, NASA's Technology Transfer Pr ...Continue Reading

  October 07, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-148*NASA Television to Air CubeSat Launch Events* Nodes CubeSats undergo final inspection at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. */Credits: NASA/Dominic Hart/* Thirteen NASA and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)-sponsored CubeSats are scheduled to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 8:49 a.m. EDT (5:49 a.m. PDT) Thursday, Oct. 8, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Prelaunch media briefings and l ...Continue Reading

Jonathan's Space Report No. 716 2015 Oct 7 Somerville, MA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erratum -------- Last issue's reference to Soyuz TMA-16,17 and 18 of course should have said Soyuz TMA-16M, 17M and 18M. International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 44 concluded with the undocking of Soyuz TMA-16M from the Zvezda aft port at 2129 UTC Sep 11, carrying Expedition 44 comma ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Oct 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 280 Issued at 0030Z on 07 Oct 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 06 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 06/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2427 N16W72 040 0100 Cso 03 02 Beta 2429 S17E56 272 0010 Bxo 02 02 Beta IA. H-alpha Pl ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (06 October 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Seeing Shock Waves http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86742&src=eoa-iotd * Devastating Rainfall in The Bahamas and South Carolina http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86736&src=eoa-iotd * India-Pakistan Border at Night http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86725&src=eoa-iotd * Sea Ice ...Continue Reading

  October 06, 2015 RELEASE 15-198*NASA Selects Student Teams for 2016 High-Powered Rocket Launch Challenge* Members of the University of Louisville Rocketry Team – River City Rocketry – carry their rocket to the launch pad during the 2015 Student Launch challenge near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. */Credits: NASA/Emmett Given/* NASA selected 55 student teams from across the nation to participate in the 2015-2016 NASA Student Launch challenge, to be held Apri ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2254 Issue Time: 2015 Oct 06 1201 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2253 Begin Time: 2015 Oct 05 1130 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1899 pfu 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 Sub ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Oct 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 279 Issued at 0030Z on 06 Oct 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 05 Oct I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 05/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2427 N18W58 039 0110 Cao 09 05 Beta IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots. Locations Valid at 05/ ...Continue Reading

  October 05, 2015 RELEASE 15-197*International Space Station Partners Release Major Update to Docking Standard* The second International Docking Adapter, IDA-2, will launch to the International Space Station on a future cargo resupply mission. The adapter was built to the specifications of the International Docking Standards, and will be a connection point for commercial crew spacecraft visiting the orbiting laboratory. */Credits: NASA/Charles Babir /* The International Space Station Mu ...Continue Reading

October 5, 2015 Version 4.1 of the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) Sea Surface Temperature dataset (http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/MUR-JPL-L4-GLOB-v4.1) has now been reprocessed back to 2002.  Users are encouraged to use this netCDF4 version as compared to the previous version 4.0 that was in netCDF3. The new data can be found here via FTP and OPeNDAP: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanTemperature/ghrsst/data/GDS2/L4/GLOB/JPL/MUR/v4.1/ http://opendap.jpl.n ...Continue Reading