Local Denver
media feature stories about the upcoming SORCE launch. SORCE is
a NASA Earth Science mission that will examine the roll of the Sun's
energy in climate change, information vital for our understanding
and protection of our home planet. It is schedule to launch Saturday,
Jan. 25 at 3:14 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,
Fla. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at
the University of Colorado is responsible for the overall program
management of SORCE. Goddard provides the management, oversight
and engineering support for the spacecraft.
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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer featured and article on the
University of Washington research on measuring gravity. Nicholas
White, Director of High Energy Astrophysics at Goddard is quoted
in the article giving an explanation of why it is difficult to work
with the standard definition of the gravitational force. The University
of Washington is working on the NASA project LISA (Laser Interferometer
Space Antenna) which will capture the signal from a gravity wave.
The Baltimore
Sun and Spaceflight Now reported about the two recently
assigned missions to John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab,
which includes them building and operating the spacecrafts. The
two missions make-up the Living With a Star Geospace Project and
will measure the effects of geomagnetic storms on the Earth's upper
atmosphere and will study the effect of solar activity on Earth's
radiation belts and Goddard will manage the missions.
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