National media coverage was given to the weekend Pegasus launch of SORCE. SORCE was successfully released from a Pegasus XL rocket on Saturday, Jan. 25 from off the coast of the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. National coverage included coverage from three CNN shows on Saturday with airings ranging from about 20 seconds to 2 minutes in eight of the top 10 news markets for a combined estimated audience of over 3 million in those cities alone.

Images from the new Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) instrument aboard GOES-12 was featured on many major media outlets this week, including ABC World News Tonight, FOX and CNN, with an estimated combined audience of about 15 million viewers. Images from the SXI will be used to monitor and forecast the sources of space weather disturbances from the Sun, enabling forecasters to predict disturbances to Earth's space environment that can destroy satellites, disrupt radio communications or surge power grids, as well as endanger astronauts working in space.