Jan 22 2010
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-057
NASA, NEWSEUM TO DEBUT IMAGES FROM UNIQUE SOLAR SPACECRAFT
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news briefing and unveil initial images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, at 2:15 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 21, in the atrium of the Newseum. The Newseum is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, in Washington. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefing. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun and its dynamic behavior. The spacecraft will provide images with clarity ten times better than high definition television and more comprehensive science data faster than any solar observing spacecraft in history. The participants for this briefing are: Dean Pesnell, SDO project scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Alan Title, principal investigator, Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, Calif. Philip H. Scherrer, principal investigator, Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager instrument, Stanford University in Palo Alto Tom Woods, principal investigator, Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment instrument, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado in Boulder Madhulika Guhathakurta, SDO program scientist, NASA Headquarters in Washington The Newseum is a 250,000-square-foot museum of news that offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-043
NASA CELEBRATES SUN-EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES WITH LIVE WEBCAST
WASHINGTON -- NASA EDGE, an award-winning talk show known for offbeat, funny and informative behind-the-scene stories about the space agency, will celebrate Sun-Earth Day 2010, with a live webcast about our sun and its effects on Earth. The program will air at 1 p.m. EDT, Saturday, March 20, from the exhibit floor of the National Science Teachers Association conference in Philadelphia. This year's focus is magnetic storms created by the sun. Magnetism, a force that affects our everyday lives, plays a key role in the workings of the sun. Its force also is responsible for coronal mass ejections, the most violent explosions in the solar system. NASA research about these storms will help scientists increase their understanding of the connections between the sun and its planets. Scientists also will be able to better predict the impact of solar activity on humans and technological systems. The NASA EDGE program will feature interviews with scientists, educators and students. Viewers will hear discussions and see demonstrations about the power of magnetism and how magnetic storms affect them. Science centers and museums around the world will provide images from NASA satellites studying the sun and other multimedia products for educators, students and the public. To view the webcast, visit: http://www.ustream.tv/user/NASA_EDGE
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CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-009
NASA AWARDS MISSISSIPPI INFORMATION AND TECHNICAL SERVICES CONTRACT
WASHINGTON -- NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., has awarded a contract to ASRC Research and Technology Solutions LLC, or ARTS, a small business in Greenbelt, Md., to provide information and technical services at the center. The cost plus incentive fee contract is valued at $54.5 million. It includes a base two-year contract plus three one-year option periods. Work performed by ARTS and its subcontractor includes a broad range of information, technical, technology and applied science services. It also covers future requirements and additions, such as telecommunication services for Stennis.
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CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-030
NASA AWARDS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SUPPORT CONTRACT
WASHINGTON -- NASA has awarded the software engineering support contract at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc. of Pasadena, Calif. The 8A set-aside cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a minimum value of $5 million and a maximum value of $250 million. The period of performance is five years, which will begin after a 45-day phase-in period. The contractor will acquire on and off-site support for the core business of the Software Engineering Division (SED) at Goddard. The work will include, but is not limited to, the design, development, test, and deployment of software; data and information systems for aerospace missions within the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate. The work also includes support for the SED managed development and test labs, test facilities and technical operations. The work will be performed at Goddard and at the contractor's facility in Greenbelt.
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CONTRACT RELEASE: C10-022
NASA SELECTS EARTH SCIENCE DATA AND INFORMATION CONTRACTOR
WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected Raytheon Company of Riverdale, Md., for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System Evolution and Development contract. The total value of the five-year, cost-plus-award-fee, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is $250 million. Raytheon will perform development and sustaining engineering of software and hardware systems that provide science data management to the Earth Science Data and Information System Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The contractor also will coordinate and integrate task related activities with the project, NASA's Distributed Active Archive Centers, the Earth science data centers, science investigator teams, the user community, and other Earth Observing System contractors.
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