Press Room
Thank you for your interest in NASA's science, engineering, and technology demonstrations at SC11 in Seattle, November 12-18. Writers, editors and industry analysts attending the conference can pick up the NASA SC11 digital press kit when registering in the Media Room (room 304).
Press Releases and Media Alerts
- 11.15.11 – NASA's Supercomputer Maintains Ranking, Supporting More Research
- 11.10.11 – NASA and Partners to Demonstrate 40- and 100-Gigabit Network Technologies at SC11
- 11.08.11 – NASA Science, Technology Featured at Supercomputing Conference
Media Backgrounders
Our expanded media backgrounders for NASA's featured demonstrations at SC11 gives journalists and other writers detailed overviews, facts, and quotes to use as a starting point for their own stories.
- Searching for Sister Planets
Today, with the help of one of NASA's largest space telescopes and its most powerful supercomputer, scientists are analyzing observational data gathered from pioneering astronomer Johannes Kepler's modern-day namesake—the Kepler Mission spacecraft—to search the skies for Earth's sister planets and make new astronomical discoveries. Read More... - Cracking the Mysteries of Space Weather
Our planet is mostly protected from solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other space weather events by a cocoon of magnetic field called the magnetosphere. But sometimes Earth's magnetosphere "cracks" and lets space weather inside, where it can cause damage. Satellites losses alone exceed $4 billion. Read More... - Spinning up NASA Supercomputers for Rotorcraft Design
From monitoring automobile traffic to lifting wounded soldiers out of combat zones, helicopters and other rotorcraft provide many useful civil and military functions without needing airports and runways. Aimed at enhancing the utility of these unique vehicles even further, NASA's Subsonic Rotary Wing (SRW) Project is performing cutting-edge research to help increase their performance and reduce the amount of noise that they produce. Read More... - Giving Rocket Science a Boost
According to a 2008 entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica blog, "it's not rocket science" is distinguished as one of the top 10 most overused and useless expressions in the English language. But as NASA pours both its brainpower and supercomputing power into developing a new heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) for human exploration far beyond Earth, expertise in rocket science is exactly what's needed for success. Read More...
Images & Videos
Get images and videos to accompany your SC11 news stories and blog entries from the NASA SC11 Media Gallery or individual demo pages. Please contact Jill Dunbar for assistance in obtaining additional high-resolution media assets.
Media Coverage
Here is a sampling of media coverage from the conference so far:
