[meteorite-list] NASA to hold Sept. 17 Briefing on MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion, Events Coverage

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:13:37 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201409150313.s8F3DbFe018769_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

September 12, 2014
     
NASA to hold Sept. 17 Briefing on MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion, Events Coverage

NASA will host a televised media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Sept. 17,
to outline activities around the Sunday, Sept. 21 orbital insertion at Mars
of the agency's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft.
The briefing will be held in NASA's Headquarters' auditorium, 300 E
Street SW in Washington, and broadcast live on NASA Television and the
agency's website.

MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the upper atmosphere of
Mars. The mission's goal is to determine how the loss of atmospheric gas to
space played a role in changing the Martian climate through time.

Panelists include:
-- Lisa May, lead program executive, Mars Exploration Program, NASA
Headquarters, Washington
--Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator, Laboratory for Atmospheric and
Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
--David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager, NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
-- Guy Beutelschies, Lockheed Martin MAVEN program manager, Lockheed Martin
Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado

Media can ask questions from participating NASA locations, or by telephone.
To participate by phone, reporters must contact Dwayne Brown at 202-358-1726
or dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov and provide their media affiliation by noon
Wednesday. The public also may ask questions on social media using the
hashtag #askNASA.

NASA Television Orbit Insertion Coverage

NASA Television coverage of the MAVEN orbit insertion begins at 9:30 p.m. EDT
and concludes at 10:45 p.m. on Sept. 21. The orbital insertion is targeted to
begin at 9:37 p.m. The program will be carried on NTV-1 (Public) and NTV-2
(Education). A clean feed for media will be carried on NTV-3 (Media Channel).
The media feed will contain views of the MAVEN Mission Support Area only,
without graphics or interviews.

A post-orbit insertion news conference is targeted for about two hours after
orbital insertion.

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

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

Media Accreditation

Media are invited to attend the orbit insertion event Sept 21 at Lockheed
Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colorado. Attending media must be U.S.
citizens and bring government-issued photo identification. For accreditation,
contact Gary Napier, 303-971-4012, gary.p.napier at lmco.com by 5 p.m. MDT
Thursday, Sept. 18.

Social Media

Members of the public are invited to follow the day-long NASA Social event on
Sept. 21 by following the hashtags #MAVEN and #JourneytoMars on social media
channels such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and others. Twitter postings
throughout the day will come from official accounts _at_NASA, @MAVEN2Mars and
_at_NASASocial.

MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and
Space Physics at University of Colorado, Boulder. The university provided two
science instruments and leads science operations and education and public
outreach for the mission.

Goddard manages the project and provided two of the science instruments for
the mission. Lockheed Martin built the spacecraft and is responsible for
mission operations. The University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences
Laboratory provided four science instruments for the mission. NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California provides navigation support,
Deep Space Network support, and Electra telecommunications relay hardware and
operations.

For more about the MAVEN mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/maven

-end-

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov

Nancy Neal-Jones/Elizabeth Zubritsky
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
301-286-0039/301-614-5438
nancy.n.jones at nasa.gov / elizabeth.a.zubritsky at nasa.gov
Received on Sun 14 Sep 2014 11:13:37 PM PDT