NASA Sets Coverage for X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Rollout *JAN 05, 2024* *MEDIA ADVISORY M24-002* Artist’s concept of the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft. NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunkworks will unveil the aircraft on Friday, Jan. 12. NASA NASA will provide live coverage as it reveals its X-59 aircraft at 4 p.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 12, as part of the agency’s Quesst mission to make commercial supersonic flight possible. For the first time, the public will see the painted aircraft, which will be unveiled during ...Continue Reading

From: mailto: Jonathan's Space Report No. 828 2024 Jan 5 Somerville, MA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JSR updates will be delayed for the next week while I am at the American Astronomical Society meeting. International Space Station --------------------------- Expedition 70 continues. Two Japanese cubesats, BEAK and ClarkSat-1, were deployed from J-SSOD No. 27 on Dec 18. The Dragon CRS-29 ca ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2024 Jan 05 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 5 Issued at 0030Z on 05 Jan 2024 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 04 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 04/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3534 S15W51 226 0030 Dao 05 05 Beta 3536 N06E24 151 0130 Dao 09 ...Continue Reading

Funding Future Tech: NASA Names 2024 Innovative Concept Studies *JAN 04, 2024* *RELEASE 24-001* A collage of illustrations highlighting the novel concepts proposed by the 2024 NIAC Phase I awardees. Credit: clockwise, from upper right: Steven Benner, Beijia Zhang, Matthew McQuinn, Alvaro Romero-Calvo, Thomas M. Eubanks, Kenneth Carpenter, James Bickford, Alvaro Romero-Calvo, Peter Cabauy, Geoffrey Landis, Lynn Rothschild, and Ge-Cheng Zha. NASA NASA selected the 2024 Phase I awardees for its program to fu ...Continue Reading

NASA Invites Public to Send Names Aboard Artemis Robotic Moon Rover *JAN 04, 2024* *RELEASE 24-003* An artist’s concept of the completed design of NASA’s VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover. VIPER will get a close-up view of the location and concentration of ice and other resources at the Moon’s South Pole, bringing us a significant step closer to NASA’s ultimate goal of a long-term presence on the Moon – making it possible to eventually explore Mars and beyond. NASA/Daniel Rutter NASA is invi ...Continue Reading

NASA History Community: We are very pleased to announce the availability of our latest NASA History Series publication, /NASA’s Discovery Program: The First Twenty Years of Competitive Planetary Exploration /(NASA SP-2023-4238).  In it, author Susan M. Niebur drew on interviews with managers, engineers, and scientists from Discovery’s early missions to take an in-depth, yet accessible, look at the management techniques in this innovative Science Mission Directorate program of robotic spacecraft.  Reflecting ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2024 Jan 04 0104 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 4 Issued at 0030Z on 04 Jan 2024 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 03 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 03/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3534 S14W37 225 0010 Bxo 01 02 Beta 3536 N06E37 151 0250 Eko 11 ...Continue Reading

January 3, 2024 Natural Events Latest Images From the Past Dayview archive of natural events Storm Batters the United Kingdom Heavy rain overtopped the banks of the River Severn and caused travel delays. (Jan 3, 2024) NASA | 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771 Unsubscribe nasa_reports@aus-city.com Update Profile | ...Continue Reading

Jan 3, 2024 The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the NOAA/STAR GHRSST Level 3S (super-collated) version 2.81 SST datasets, produced from the Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) JPSS (NPP, N20, N21), Metop-FG (Metop-A, B C) and NASA (Aqua, Terra) satellites. The L3S-LEO is a family of global multi-sensor L3S gridded 0.02º resolution SST products. The L3S-LEO-PM (afternoon orbit) SST is derived from VIIRSs flown onboard JPSS satellites (NPP, N20 and N21) and MODIS onboard Aqua, by collating individual sa ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2024 Jan 03 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 3 Issued at 0030Z on 03 Jan 2024 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 02 Jan I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 02/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 3534 S12W22 222 0010 Bxo 07 04 Beta 3535 S08W79 279 0010 Axx 02 ...Continue Reading