NASA Hosts June 4 Media Briefing on Next Solar Mission Launch

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May 29, 2013

Steve Cole 
Headquarters, Washington      
202-358-0918 
stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx 


MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-087

NASA HOSTS JUNE 4 MEDIA BRIEFING ON NEXT SOLAR MISSION LAUNCH

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, 
June 4, about the upcoming launch of the Interface Region Imaging 
Spectrograph (IRIS) mission. The briefing will be held at NASA 
Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in Washington and air live on NASA 
Television and the agency's website. 

IRIS is scheduled to launch June 26 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 
California. 

IRIS is a NASA Small Explorer Mission to observe how solar material 
moves, gathers energy, and heats up as it travels through a 
little-understood region in the sun's lower atmosphere. This 
interface region between the sun's photosphere and corona powers its 
dynamic million-degree atmosphere and drives the solar wind. The 
region is the origin of most of the ultraviolet solar emission that 
impacts the near-Earth space environment and Earth's climate. 

The panelists for the briefing are: 
-- Jeffrey Newmark, IRIS program scientist, NASA Headquarters, 
Washington 
-- Alan Title, IRIS principal investigator, Lockheed Martin's Advanced 
Technology Center, Palo Alto, Calif. 
-- Gary Kushner, IRIS program manager, Lockheed Martin's Advanced 
Technology Center, Palo Alto, Calif. 
-- John Marmie, IRIS assistant project manager, NASA's Ames Research 
Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 

Journalists unable to attend in person may ask questions from 
participating NASA locations, join by phone, or send questions to 
Twitter using the hashtag #askNASA. To participate by phone, 
reporters must contact Steve Cole at 202-358-0918 or 
stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx with their media affiliation by 10 a.m., June 
4. 

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, 
visit: 


http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

For more information about the IRIS mission, visit: 


http://www.nasa.gov/iris 

	
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