June 18th 2015 PST
June 18, 2015 RELEASE 15-133*University Students Win NASA/NIA Space Engineering Design Contest* Future astronauts may someday explore Mars using winning concepts from NASA’s 2015 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Competition. Sixteen teams competed in the contest sponsored by NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), which challenges graduate and undergraduate students to solve real-life space exploration challenges. This year, the competition asked teams to develop a ...Continue Reading
June 18th 2015 PST
June 18, 2015 The PO.DAAC would like to inform users of Aquarius data of the following official NASA announcement regarding the Aquarius/SAC-D mission. http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/international-spacecraft-carrying-nasa-s-aquarius-instrument-ends-operations The forward stream of Aquarius data will end. There will be future historical reprocessings of the data which will be announced as they become available. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Continue Reading
June 18th 2015 PST
June 18, 2015 RELEASE 15-131*NASA Hosts Rocket Week at Wallops Flight Facility* Students and educators from across the country will have the chance to be rocket scientists during Rocket Week, June 20-26 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. About 150 university and community college students and instructors will build and fly experiments on a NASA suborbital rocket through the RockOn and RockSat-C programs. Another 20 high school educators from the eastern United States will examine how to apply rocket ...Continue Reading
June 18th 2015 PST
Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2194 Issue Time: 2015 Jun 18 1418 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2193 Begin Time: 2015 Jun 15 1320 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 2804 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading
June 17th 2015 PST
:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2015 Jun 18 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 169 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Jun 2015 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Jun I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2365 S13W88 082 0060 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 2367 S20W07 002 0340 Ekc 11 21 Beta-Gamma 2369 N0 ...Continue Reading
June 17th 2015 PST
June 17, 2015 RELEASE 15-130*All Systems Go for NASA's Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa * Could a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa have the ingredients to support life? Here's how NASA's mission to Europa would find out. */Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech /* Beyond Earth, Jupiter’s moon Europa is considered one of the most promising places in the solar system to search for signs of present-day life, and a new NASA mission to explore this potential is moving forward from concept review ...Continue Reading
June 17th 2015 PST
June 17, 2015 RELEASE 15-126*International Spacecraft Carrying NASA’s Aquarius Instrument Ends Operations* This video provides a global tour of sea surface salinity using measurements taken by NASA's Aquarius instrument aboard the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft, from December 2011 through December 2012. Red represents areas of high salinity, while blue represents areas of low salinity. Aquarius is a focused effort to measure sea surface salinity and will provide the global view of salinity variability needed for clim ...Continue Reading
June 17th 2015 PST
June 17, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-090*NASA Astronauts Headline Public Events in Washington, Virginia, Maryland, Online * NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Reid Wiseman are seen here aboard the International Space Station, in October 2014, the day before they performed EVA-28 tomorrow -- the first U.S. spacewalk since November 2008 to feature an all-Navy crew. */Credits: NASA/* NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Barry “Butch” Wilmore will be making several stops in the Washington area June 22-26 to ...Continue Reading
June 17th 2015 PST
Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 2193 Issue Time: 2015 Jun 17 1433 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 2192 Begin Time: 2015 Jun 15 1320 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 3261 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Ser ...Continue Reading
June 17th 2015 PST
June 15, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY M15-095*NASA Celebrates Martian New Year in Mars, Pennsylvania* Spaceship landmark in Mars, Pennsylvania */Credits: Jon Dawson/* Creative Commons License NASA will land in Mars, Pennsylvania Friday, June 19 to celebrate Mars’ New Year with Red Planet enthusiasts of the Keystone State for three days of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) activities. The goal is to encourage young people to pursue careers in in these critical fields of study that will ...Continue Reading
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