NASA, NOAA Announce Opportunity for Media to Preview Airborne Air Quality Study

NASA, NOAA Announce Opportunity for Media to Preview Airborne Air Quality Study

Media are invited to a behind-the-scenes look at the second phase of a major field campaign to study the impacts of U.S. wildfires and agricultural fires on air quality and climate.

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NASA Television to Broadcast Space Station Departure of Cygnus Cargo Ship

NASA Television to Broadcast Space Station Departure of Cygnus Cargo Ship

More than three months after delivering several tons of supplies and scientific experiments to the International Space Station, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, the SS Roger Chaffee, will depart the orbiting laboratory Tuesday, Aug. 6.

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NASA Targets Coastal Ecosystems with New Space Sensor

NASA Targets Coastal Ecosystems with New Space Sensor

 

NASA’s Geosynchronous Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer (GLIMR) instrument will collect high-resolution observations of coastal ecosystems in such areas as the northern Gulf of Mexico, shown in this image with phytoplankton blooms stretching from the Texas and Louisiana coast (left) across the Mississippi River delta (center) toward Florida (far right). Credits: NASA

 

NASA has selected a space-based instrument under its Earth Venture Instrument (EVI) portfolio that will make observations of coastal waters to help protect ecosystem sustainability, improve resource management, and enhance economic activity.

 

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GOES-17 Mishap Investigation Board Study Completed

GOES-17 Mishap Investigation Board Study Completed

 

 

A Mishap Investigation Board appointed by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has identified the most likely cause for an instrument issue aboard NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-17 satellite that launched March 1, 2018 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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NASA Administrator Names Acting Director for Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Administrator Names Acting Director for Goddard Space Flight Center

 

Goddard Acting Center Director George Morrow Credits: NASA/Bill Hrybyk

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has named George Morrow to serve as acting director of the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, effective Thursday, Aug. 1.

 

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