September 02, 2015 RELEASE 15-180*NASA Soil Moisture Radar Ends Operations, Mission Science Continues* NASA’s SMAP mission, launched in January to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed, continues to produce high-quality science measurements with one of its two instruments. */Credits: NASA/* Mission managers for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory have determined that its radar, one of the satellite’s two science instrum ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HURRICANE FRED In late August 2015, a hurricane formed father east in the tropical Atlantic than it has at any time in the satellite era. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=86517&src=nha *** Image from Aug 31, 2015 (Posted on Sep 01, 2015 2:28 PM) --------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading

September 2, 2015 Starting on 15 August 2015 (orbital rev 5064) and continuing to present day, there has been an anomalous drop in the echo power signal in the receiver of approximately 20 dB, which initially took place at 03:01:59 UTC. Both noise and signal power dropped but not by equal amounts. The Signal to Noise Ratio dropped by 10 dB. Corresponding with this drop in power was an increase of approximately 0.20 mA in current in the Scatterometer Electronics Subsystem ...Continue Reading

  September 02, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-132*Three Space Station Crews to Answer Media Questions from Orbit* *//* Nine International Space Station crew members will discuss their mission with reporters from around the world during a joint crew news conference to air live on NASA Television at 10:10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 8. This will be the first time since November 2013 that nine crew members are aboard the station simultaneously. The nine crew members represent five different space agenc ...Continue Reading

  September 02, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-131*NASA Discusses First Ground Tournament Prizes in Cube Quest Challenge* *//* Media are invited to talk with the five top competitors from the first round of the Cube Quest Challenge during a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 9. Each of the five teams was awarded $20,000 in prize money during the first of four Cube Quest ground tournaments. The ground tournaments are a series of competition checkpoints that allow the judges to review the ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2240 Issue Time: 2015 Sep 02 1216 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2239 Begin Time: 2015 Aug 30 1245 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 3145 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

September 02, 2015 RELEASE 15-181*Soyuz Heads to Space Station with New Crew, Return Transportation for One-Year Mission Team * Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos, Andreas Mogensen of ESA (European Space Agency) and Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency launched aboard Soyuz TMA-18M from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:37 a.m. EDT on Wednesday (10:37 a.m. in Baikonur). */Credits: NASA TV/* Three crew members representing Russia, Denmark and Kazakhstan have launched to the International Space Station to ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Sep 02 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 245 Issued at 0030Z on 02 Sep 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 01 Sep I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 01/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2406 N03W05 075 0010 Bxo 04 09 Beta 2407 N16W75 145 0050 Cso 07 05 Beta 2409 N05E54 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (01 September 2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Features: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ * Sea Level Rise Hits Home at NASA http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/NASASeaLevel/?src=eoa-features Sea level rise is not just an academic concern for NASA satellites and scientists. With two-thirds of its infrastructure and assets situated on the coast, the agency has first-hand experience with the effects of rising w ...Continue Reading

  September 01, 2015 RELEASE 15-179*NASA Awards Grants to Expand STEM Education * NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected nine universities for cooperative agreement awards totaling $3.6 million to create and operate a NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy. The universities will receive as much as $160,000 per year for two years and up to $100,000 for a third year. The Aerospace Academies will engage historically underserved and underrepresented stud ...Continue Reading