Oct. 25, 2011 Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-222 NASA PLANS MEDIA BRIEFINGS ON NPP LAUNCH FROM CALIFORNIA WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a series of news briefings from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 4 to 6 p.m. EDT, to discuss the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) is scheduled for launch from Vandenberg on Friday, Oct. 28, during a nine-minute, 10 second window that opens at 5:48 a.m. NPP will collect critical data to improve our understanding of long-term climate change and short-term weather conditions. The second of NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellite (ELaNa) missions also will launch with NPP aboard a Delta II rocket. Participants in the prelaunch news briefing are: - Andrew Carson, NPP program executive, NASA Headquarters, Washington - Tim Dunn, NASA launch director, Kennedy Space Center, Fla. - Vernon Thorp, program manager, NASA missions, United Launch Alliance, Cape Canaveral, Fla. - Ken Schwer, NPP project manager, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. - 2nd Lt. Lisa Cochran, launch weather officer, 30th Operations Support Squadron, Vandenberg Air Force Base Participants in the NPP science briefing are: - Jim Gleason, NPP project scientist, Goddard - Mitch Goldberg, NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System program scientist, Silver Spring, Md. Participants in the ELaNa briefing are: - Roland Coelho, program lead, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo - Garrett Skrobot, ELaNa mission manager, NASA Launch Services Program, Kennedy The briefings will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency's website with question-and-answer capability available from agency field centers. Reporters also may email questions for participants during the briefings to Steve Cole at: stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx Emailed questions must include the journalist's name, affiliation and a contact telephone number. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For more information about the NPP mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/npp -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
