Local Denver media feature stories about the upcoming SORCE launch. SORCE is a NASA Earth Science mission that will examine the roll of the Sun's energy in climate change, information vital for our understanding and protection of our home planet. It is schedule to launch Saturday, Jan. 25 at 3:14 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado is responsible for the overall program management of SORCE. Goddard provides the management, oversight and engineering support for the spacecraft.

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer featured and article on the University of Washington research on measuring gravity. Nicholas White, Director of High Energy Astrophysics at Goddard is quoted in the article giving an explanation of why it is difficult to work with the standard definition of the gravitational force. The University of Washington is working on the NASA project LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) which will capture the signal from a gravity wave.

The Baltimore Sun and Spaceflight Now reported about the two recently assigned missions to John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, which includes them building and operating the spacecrafts. The two missions make-up the Living With a Star Geospace Project and will measure the effects of geomagnetic storms on the Earth's upper atmosphere and will study the effect of solar activity on Earth's radiation belts and Goddard will manage the missions.