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width: 603px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; font-size: 2.2em;">NASA TV Coverage Set for Orbital ATK Resupply Mission to Space Station</h1></div></div><section id="ember945" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/orbital-cygnus.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" width="237" height="158" alt="Orbital ATK's enhanced Cygnus spacecraft" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="C842E770-5D63-4A32-BE18-6ABDABE2164A" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" class="" src="cid:DC8AB661-102D-4FC8-9199-E0188DA91C44@192.168.1.1"></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 11px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A transporter moves Orbital ATK's enhanced Cygnus spacecraft, fitted inside the payload fairing of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V, from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Space Launch Complex 41. The Cygnus is a cargo-only spacecraft that will take about 7,300 pounds of experiments, equipment and supplies to the International Space Station.</div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Credits: United Launch Alliance</div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-size: inherit; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">NASA commercial partner Orbital ATK has set Thursday, Dec. 3, for the launch of its fourth contracted mission to the International Space Station under the agency’s Commercial Resupply Services contract. NASA Television coverage begins at 4:30 p.m. EST.</p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">NASA confirmed the launch date at the conclusion of Tuesday’s launch readiness review at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. During the meeting, senior NASA, U.S. Air Force, Orbital ATK and United Launch Alliance managers assessed the risks associated with the mission and determined the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft, United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and personnel are ready for launch.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">Cygnus is set to lift off on the Atlas V at 5:55 p.m., the beginning of a 30-minute launch window, from CCAFS Space Launch Complex 41. Cygnus will carry more than 7,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory to support dozens of approximately 250 science and research investigations that will occur during Expeditions 45 and 46. This first Cygnus mission using the Atlas V launch system provides increased performance and flexibility to the Orbital ATK cargo delivery service.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">In addition to launch coverage, NASA TV will air three briefings Wednesday, Dec. 2: several experts involved in the launch and mission will host an interactive discussion with the agency’s social media followers from 9 to 10:30 a.m.; at 1 p.m., scientists and researchers will discuss some of the investigations to be delivered; at 2 p.m., mission managers will host a prelaunch news conference. A post-launch briefing will be held approximately two hours after launch. All briefings will air live on NASA TV and via streaming video on the agency's website. </span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">The new experiments arriving to the orbital laboratory will challenge and inspire future scientists and explorers. Science payloads will offer a new life science facility that will support studies on cell cultures, bacteria and other microorganisms; a microsatellite deployer and the first microsatellite that will be deployed from the space station; and experiments that will study the behavior of gases and liquids, clarify the thermo-physical properties of molten steel, and evaluate flame-resistant textiles.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">Cygnus also will deliver replacement cargo items including a set of Microsoft HoloLens devices for use in</span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-microsoft-collaborate-to-bring-science-fiction-to-science-fact/" style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">NASA’s Sidekick project</a><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">, a safety jet pack astronauts wear during spacewalks known as SAFER, and high pressure</span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/content/air-supply-high-pressure-tanks-ready-for-space-station" style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">nitrogen and oxygen tanks</a><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">to plug into the station’s air supply network.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">This will be the first flight of an enhanced Cygnus spacecraft to the station. The cargo freighter now features a greater payload capacity, new UltraFlex solar arrays and new fuel tanks. Cygnus’ pressurized cargo module has been extended and increases the spacecraft’s interior volume capacity by 25 percent, enabling more cargo to be delivered with each mission.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">A Dec. 3 launch will result in the Cygnus spacecraft arriving at the space station on Sunday, Dec. 6. NASA crew members Kjell Lindgren and Scott Kelly will use the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm to reach out and capture Cygnus at approximately 5:30 a.m. NASA TV coverage of rendezvous and grapple of Cygnus will begin at 4 a.m. Cygnus will be the first cargo ship to be berthed to the Earth-facing port on the Unity module. Coverage of Cygnus' installation will begin at 7:15 a.m. </span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">The spacecraft will spend more than a month attached to the space station before its destructive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere in January 2016, disposing of about 3,000 pounds of trash.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">
<span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">For an updated schedule of prelaunch briefings, events and NASA TV coverage, visit: </span><a href="http://go.nasa.gov/1MzW1Cj%C2%A0" style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://go.nasa.gov/1MzW1Cj </a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">For NASA TV schedule and video streaming information, visit: </span><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv" style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">For launch countdown coverage, NASA's launch blog, and more information about the mission, visit: </span><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/orbitalatk" style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">http://www.nasa.gov/orbitalatk</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">For more information about the International Space Station, visit: </span><font color="#428bca" class=""><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em; box-sizing: border-box; background-position: 0px 0px;" class=""><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/station" class="">http://www.nasa.gov/station</a></span></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTUxMTI3LjUyMDE3MzQxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE1MTEyNy41MjAxNzM0MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MjI4MjYyJmVtYWlsaWQ9Zm9yZGdhYmVAbmV0emVyby5jb20mdXNlcmlkPWZvcmRnYWJlQG5ldHplcm8uY29tJmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-precocious-black-hole?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery" class="">A Precocious Black Hole</a></div></td></tr><tr class=""><td colspan="1" style="padding-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><div class="rss_pub_date" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;">11/27/2015 10:35 AM EST</div></td></tr><tr class=""><td colspan="1" style="padding-bottom: 15px;" class=""><div class="rss_enclosure"><img src="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/cid947_lg.jpg" width="700" height="407" class=""></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></h1></div></div><section id="ember940" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">In July 2015, <a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/15_releases/press_070915.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">researchers announced the discovery</a> of a black hole, shown in the above illustration, that grew much more quickly than its host galaxy. The discovery calls into question previous assumptions on the development of galaxies. The black hole was originally discovered using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and was then detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and by ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">Benny Trakhtenbrot, from ETH Zurich's Institute for Astronomy, and an international team of astrophysicists, performed a follow-up observation of this black hole using the 10 meter Keck telescope in Hawaii and were surprised by the results. The data, collected with a new instrument, revealed a giant black hole in an otherwise normal, distant galaxy, called CID-947.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/15_releases/press_070915.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">News release: Chandra X-Ray Observatory</a></p></div></section></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><div class="title-bar" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 603px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; font-size: 2.2em;"><table width="700" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><div class="rss_item" style="margin-bottom: 2em;"><table class="content-table" border="0" width="700" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 700px;"><tbody class=""><tr style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" class=""><td colspan="1" align="left" valign="top" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><div class="rss_title" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTUxMjAxLjUyMTUxMTgxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE1MTIwMS41MjE1MTE4MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MjMwMDMwJmVtYWlsaWQ9Zm9yZGdhYmVAbmV0emVyby5jb20mdXNlcmlkPWZvcmRnYWJlQG5ldHplcm8uY29tJmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/celebrating-20-years-of-the-solar-and-heliospheric-observatory-soho?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery" class="">Celebrating 20 Years of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)</a></div></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" class=""><td colspan="1" style="padding-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><div class="rss_pub_date" style="font-size: 13px; font-style: italic;">12/01/2015 12:04 PM EST</div></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" class=""><td colspan="1" style="padding-bottom: 15px;" class=""><div class="rss_enclosure"><img src="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/c2eitnov800.jpg" width="700" height="546" class=""></div></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" class=""><td colspan="1" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></h1></div></div><section id="ember933" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">After 20 years in space, ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, is <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasas-soho-celebrates-20-years-of-space-based-science" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">still going strong</a>. Originally launched in 1995 to study the sun and its influence out to the very edges of the solar system, SOHO revolutionized this field of science, known as heliophysics, providing the basis for nearly 5,000 scientific papers. SOHO discovered dynamic solar phenomena such as coronal waves, solar tsunamis and sun quakes, and found an unexpected role as the greatest comet hunter of all time—<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/esa-nasa-solar-observatory-discovers-its-3000th-comet" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">reaching 3,000 comet discoveries</a> in September 2015.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.4em;" class="">This <a href="http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/images/20031202c2eit304.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">"Best of SOHO"</a> image by the observatory's LASCO C2 coronograph from Nov. 8, 2000, shows what appears to be two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) heading in symmetrically opposite directions from the sun. A 304Å image from SOHO's Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) taken on the same day has been superimposed over the dark disk which blocks the sun so that the LASCO instrument can observe the structures of the corona in visible light. CMEs, which are huge, fast-moving clouds of electrically-charged solar material that contain embedded magnetic fields, can cause geomagnetic storms when they collide with Earth’s magnetic field, causing it to shimmy and shake. The ability to connect the effects of geomagnetic storms—like auroras, GPS and communication disturbances, and geomagnetically induced currents, which can put a strain on power grids—to events on the sun has brought the idea of space weather into the mainstream.</p></div></section></div></div></section></div></body></html>