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NASA, SpaceX Target New Launch Date for NOAA Weather Satellite 

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting Tuesday, June 25, for the launch of GOES-U, the fourth and final satellite in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) – R Series. The new launch date allowed time for teams to fully repair and test the Falcon Heavy core booster after a liquid oxygen leak was identified during routine new booster testing in February. NASA and SpaceX teams have resumed preparation of the GOES-U launch. GOES-U will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NOAA oversees the GOES-R Series Program through an integrated NOAA-NASA office, managing the ground system, operating the satellites, and distributing their data to users worldwide. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center manages the acquisition of the spacecraft and instruments and also built the Magnetometer instrument for GOES-T and GOES-U. NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy Space Center manages the launch services for the GOES missions. Lockheed Martin designs, builds, and tests the GOES-R series satellites. L3Harris Technologies provides the primary instrument, the Advanced Baseline Imager, along with the ground system, which includes the antenna system for data reception.
 

Author Leejay LockhartPosted on March 26, 2024March 29, 2024Categories GOES-U, Kennedy, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Services Program, NASATags GOES-U, GSFC, Kennedy, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, Launch Services Program, LSP, NASA, NASA TagsGeostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Spacecraft, Weather Satellite 

Launch of NOAA Weather Satellite Delayed 

Technicians monitor movement and guide NOAA’s Geostationary Operation Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) as a crane hoists it on to a spacecraft dolly in a high bay at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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The first in a series of NASA podcasts for Sun-Earth Day 2007: Living in the Atmosphere of the Sun. This podcast includes an interview with Elaine Lewis, the Leader of the Sun-Earth Day 2007 program.
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The first in a series of NASA podcasts for Sun-Earth Day 2007: Living in the Atmosphere of the Sun. This podcast includes an interview with Elaine Lewis, the Leader of the Sun-Earth Day 2007 program.

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Sun-Earth Day 2007, Program 2
Sun-Earth Day staff participated in the National Education Computing Conference (NECC) held in San Diego, California. In this installment Troy interviews elementary school principal Cathy Cannon and Kathy Kaiser-Holscott, the director of NASA's Central Operation of Resources for Educators (NASA CORE).
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The second in a series of NASA podcasts for Sun-Earth Day 2007: Living in the Atmosphere of the Sun. This podcast includes interviews with elementary school principal Cathy Cannon and Kathy Kaiser-Holscott, the director of NASA's CORE Program.
VET TEC update: The pilot program concludes this April - VA News
VA’s highly sought after five-year pilot program—Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC)—is coming to an end this April. This innovative program provided $45 million annually to pair Veterans and transitioning service members with high-technology programs, and featured performance targets and oversight of providers based on the agreements entered with VA.
VA is proud to have offered this pilot program to provide opportunities for Veterans to obtain the technology skills sought by today’s top employers. Over the five-year program, more than 14,000 VET TEC beneficiaries completed their program and nearly half have reported finding meaningful employment with an average starting annual salary of $65,000.
What does this mean for Veterans and eligible service members?

As of March 25, VA is unable to fund any new VET TEC students. The VET TEC program formally ends April 1.

Students currently enrolled in VET TEC programs will continue training uninterrupted. VET TEC monthly housing allowance and tuition and fees payments can be made through fiscal year 2024; so, no students’ payments will be affected, even if their formal term ends after April 1.

Veterans in receipt of a VET TEC Certificate of Eligibility, but not yet enrolled in a program, will be notified that funding for the pilot program has ended and will be reminded that this is the last year of the VET TEC pilot program. VA is unable to fund any new VET TEC students. This means no new VET TEC enrollments can be submitted or paid.

New VET TEC applicants will have their applications for the pilot program reviewed, and if found eligible will be notified that while they met the necessary criteria, no funding remains for the pilot program.

Individuals with questions regarding their VET TEC eligibility or the VET TEC program should email the VET TEC team at VETTEC.VBABUF@va.gov.
VET TEC training providers with questions should email the VET TEC Education Liaison Representative team at ELR-VETTEC.VBABUF@va.gov.
For other questions about their GI Bill® education benefits, beneficiaries should call the Education Call Center at 1-888-442-4551.   
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“The work we did on that aircraft will make a difference to future generations in improved weather forecasting, monitoring glacial ice thickness, air quality, and improving our ability to predict the development of hurricanes from tropical storms.”
NASA Armstrong primarily kept the DC-8 testbed ready for flying science missions and the preparations to get the aircraft where it was needed for the scientists to do their work. NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley managed the science.

Members of the DC-8 program team tour an empty aircraft and recall past missions. Usually the DC-8 has between 15 and 30 instrument racks installed for a given science mission. The aircraft was spacious by comparison on May 2, 2024, when NASA personnel, friends, and family gathered at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California to celebrate the DC-8 staff, aircraft, and science campaigns. Conversing here are DC-8 aircraft deputy manager Kirsten Boogaard, left, with NASA Armstrong pilot Carrie Worth, Mike Zimmerman, and NASA Armstrong public affairs specialist for airborne science, Erica Heim.
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“I really found it rewarding working on the DC-8 project and I will miss the team,” said Brian Hobbs, NASA Armstrong DC-8 manager. “It is a high-performing team. We have had some folks with the DC-8 project for a long time who have a lot of corporate knowledge. The comradery and the can-do attitude are impressive.”
Sometimes heroics were needed to save the day, Hobbs said. “During the recent Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality, or ASIA-AQ, mission, we had an engine failure. The logistics and procurement teams acted quickly to get the engine shipped and the crew was able to get it the engine replaced, tested and ready to go. That could have been the end of the campaign, but our team made it happen.”
The DC-8 team’s ability to make missions happen is something Hal Maring, NASA Earth Science Division scientist, experienced. “The DC-8 has flown scientists on a lot of missions to look at atmospheric composition, for which the most important applications are air quality.
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SUDA | Instruments – NASA's Europa Clipper
If a subsurface ocean or reservoir is venting material into space as plumes (like the geyser Old Faithful), SUDA will analyze it to help determine if Europa’s water is suitable for some form of life.

“Once the lid on the SUDA bucket opens, SUDA is like a shark with an open mouth.”

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When dust enters SUDA, it passes through a series of metal mesh grids that measure the dust’s speed and trajectory, which identify the dust’s area of origin on Europa’s surface. 
The dust then strikes a metal target plate. “It splatters dust grains into individual molecules and ionizes some of them,” said SUDA investigation scientist Murthy Gudipati, a planetary scientist and astrophysicist. Once ionized (electrically charged), the molecules must obey SUDA’s electrical field, which funnels them to a detector. An ion’s mass-to-charge ratio determines how long it takes to reach the detector. The timing reveals the molecule’s mass and composition. “We can resolve amino acids, sulfates, whatever,” Gutipati said. “We can identify whether organic molecules are abiotic or biomolecules.”
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A dust grain’s trajectory helps scientists know where on Europa’s surface it came from. Knowing the grain’s speed helps pin down the dust’s origin even more accurately.
Each dust particle’s chemistry is a data point indicating the composition of one spot on Europa’s surface. 
SUDA will study how much Europa surface material originated from elsewhere, said Sascha Kempf, SUDA’s principal investigator and a planetary scientist at University of Colorado-Boulder. “When using Europa's surface material to draw conclusions about the moon's interior, you first need to know how much surface material is not from Europa,” he said.
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In the process, they kick up tiny particles from the moon’s surface, sometimes ejecting these bits of moon stuff several miles into space. Researchers estimate that roughly half a ton of material surrounds Europa at all times.
SUDA will use its wide mouth to capture those particles. These tiny grains will be moving at relative speeds of more than 10,000 miles per hour—so fast that when they hit the target that sits at the back of the instrument, they will vaporize on impact. SUDA collects the ions that escape from those collisions and measures them to determine exactly what the particles were made of.
The instrument is so sensitive that it can detect amino acids mixed in with ice at concentrations of about 1 part per million. Scientists can also use data from SUDA to pinpoint where on the moon those particles originated to within about 10 miles.
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Europa Clipper’s SUrface Dust Analyzer instrument, called SUDA, is seen being examined by an engineer in a cleanroom at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, following delivery of the instrument. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Getting SUDA to Europa, or even California, however, hasn’t been easy.
Over seven years, roughly 150 scientists and engineers at LASP have worked on the instrument, including about 40 undergraduate and graduate students.
To make sure that SUDA’s target could withstand all of those impacts from dust, the group partnered with researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder to coat this disk in a thin layer of iridium—one of the hardest and densest naturally-occurring metals on Earth.
Sascha Kempf, the instrument’s principal investigator, noted that SUDA is also a marvel of cleanliness. The team needs to be sure that SUDA will transport almost no contaminants from Earth to Europa. To achieve that feat, engineers from LASP heated the instrument to 239 degrees Fahrenheit for about 17 hours to kill off living organisms like bacteria. They also ran sterile nitrogen gas through SUDA while working with it to flush out unwanted contaminants from the air.
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 The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image of Canada and the western United States in mid-November, 2015.  Snow and cold rain doused the region, bringing early winter weather and making researchers ask if this is the beginning of a wet El Niño winter. The image shows a band of snow stretching across southern Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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Dense Fog Over Europe

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Tassia Owen 
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15 November, 2015
The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image of dense fog in Europe. The fog appears brighter than typical clouds because the water droplets in the fog are smaller and more efficiently scatter light. The fog disrupted air travel in London and central Europe in early November 2015. The image was featured on NASA’s Earth Observatory Image of the Day.

Hofsjökull Ice Cap Gains Mass for the First Time in Twenty Years

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Tassia Owen 
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18 November, 2015
The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite captured a view of the Nordic island, Hofsjökull, on November 9, 2015. The island is experiencing its first gain in mass. Since 1995, the ice caps in Iceland have been retreating and losing volume, however in October 2015, ground based measurements showed that the Hofsjökull ice cap gained mass.
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