NASA is hosting a media teleconference to discuss its role in
Solar-B, a three-year international mission to study the sun's
magnetic field and how its turbulent nature impacts Earth. The
teleconference will take place at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 18. -
John M. Davis, Solar-B project scientist, Marshall Space Flight
Center, Huntsville, Ala. - Ted Tarbell, principal investigator
for the Solar Optical Telescope Focal Plane Package, Lockheed
Martin, Palo Alto, Calif. - Ed DeLuca, principal investigator
for the X-ray Telescope, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
Cambridge, Mass. - John Mariska, co-investigator for the Extreme
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer, Naval Research Laboratory,
Washington. Solar-B is set to launch on Saturday, Sept. 23, from
Uchinoura Space Center, Kagoshima, Japan. Led by the Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency, Solar-B is a collaboration among
the space agencies of Japan, the U.S., United Kingdom and
Europe. Reporters should call: 877-546-1568 and use the passcode
"SOLAR" to participa