Sep 30 2016

From The Space Library

MEDIA ADVISORY M16-114 NASA TV to Broadcast Hispanic Heritage Event, Aspira con NASA / Aspire with NASA

NASA will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the agency’s headquarters in Washington Tuesday, Oct. 4, with stories of aspiration, inspiration and exploration. Aspira con NASA / Aspire with NASA will highlight the contributions of Hispanics to NASA’s mission and their incredible personal stories. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website at 10 a.m. EDT.

Opening remarks will be given by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Krista Paquin, associate administrator for NASA Headquarters Mission Support. The program will feature guest speakers Diana Trujillo, mission lead for Mars Curiosity Rover, and former NASA astronaut José Hernández.

Aspira con NASA / Aspire with NASA is being hosted by NASA’s Hispanic Outreach and Leadership Alliance (HOLA) and the Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management Division (EODM). For information about the event, contact Jerry Rengel at jerry.a.rengel@nasa.gov.

RELEASE 16-099 NASA, France to Collaborate on Aircraft Noise Research

Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, signed an agreement on Sept. 27, 2016, with Bruno Sainjon, president and chief executive officer of the French Aerospace Lab (ONERA) to cooperate in aircraft noise research during a bilateral meeting held in conjunction with the seventh annual International Forum for Aviation Research Summit.

During bilateral meetings in Daejeon, South Korea, NASA and France’s Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA) signed an agreement Tuesday to collaborate on research that focuses on mitigating the effects of civil air transportation noise.

“Noise is a major issue affecting not only the aviation community, but citizens around the world that live near active airports,” said Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. “This agreement with ONERA establishes a partnership in the area of mitigating of aircraft noise research to create a synergistic effect that just can’t be achieved when working alone.”

Under the agreement, NASA and ONERA will work together to advance technology in the areas of aircraft noise prediction and understanding human response to aircraft noise through validation of models using advanced measurement methods and comprehensive data sets.

The agreement creates a forum through which both agencies can share technical knowledge and data in order to independently improve their own capabilities with the overall objective of mitigating the effects of civil air transportation noise. This research complements the work currently being performed by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.

MEDIA ADVISORY M16-116 NASA Highlights Science on Next Commercial Resupply Mission to International Space Station

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct 5, to discuss select science investigations launching on the next Orbital ATK commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.

Orbital ATK is targeting no earlier than Oct. 9-13 for the launch of its Cygnus spacecraft on an Antares rocket from pad 0A at Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. A more specific date will be identified after completion of final operational milestones and technical reviews.

Participants in Wednesday’s briefing will be:

• Dan Dietrich, co-investigator for Cool Flames at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, will discuss an investigation into a phenomenon where some types of fuels initially burn very hot and then appear to go out, but actually continue to burn at a much lower temperature with no visible flames.
• David Urban, principal investigator for Saffire-II at Glenn, will provide an overview of the second in a series of experiments to ignite a large-scale fire inside an empty Cygnus resupply vehicle, after it leaves the space station, to improve understanding of fire growth in microgravity and safeguarding future space missions.
• Scott Green, principal investigator for the Controlled Dynamics locker at Controlled Dynamics Inc., will explain how the facility can enable a new class of research experiments by minimizing fluctuations and disturbances in the microgravity environment that can occur onboard a moving spacecraft.
• Mary Murphy, senior internal payloads manager for the Black Box at NanoRacks, will discuss the platform that can provide advanced science capabilities and is specially designed for near-launch payload turnover of autonomous payloads.