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A resupply mission wraps up at the space station
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A new name for an Earth-observing satellite
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And preparing for an unprecedented peek at
the Sun … a few of the stories to tell you

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about – This Week at NASA!

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More than two months after delivering several
tons of supplies and scientific experiments

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to the International Space Station, Northrop
Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft left the

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station on Jan. 31.

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The company is targeting Feb. 9 for the launch
of its next Cygnus filled with supplies and

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science for station, from our Wallops Flight
Facility in Virginia.

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The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the new
name of a satellite launching this fall to

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uncover new knowledge about our oceans.

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NASA and several partners renamed the satellite
in honor of Earth scientist Michael Freilich,

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who retired last year after fourteen years
as the head of NASA’s Earth Science division.

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We are collaborating with the European Space
Agency for the upcoming Solar Orbiter mission

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to capture the first-ever pictures of the
Sun’s north and south poles.

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Data from the mission will help us better
plan for and mitigate the potentially harmful

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effects of solar activity on technology and
astronauts in space.

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The new season of the NASA Explorers video
series called “Microgravity,” looks at

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the International Space Station’s unique
research capabilities, and follows a team

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of scientists through the process of conducting
an experiment aboard the station.

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Episodes are available on the NASA Explorers’
Facebook and NASA’s YouTube accounts.

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On Jan. 30, senior officials and others from
NASA Headquarters attended the annual Day

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of Remembrance observance at Arlington National
Cemetery in Virginia.

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The annual NASA event is one of several around
the country in tribute to the fallen astronauts

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of Apollo 1; space shuttles Challenger and
Columbia; and other members of the NASA family

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who lost their lives in support of the agency’s
mission of exploration and discovery.