On 18 February 2016 the Terra satellite was placed in safe mode. This means most systems were shut down and data collection was stopped. We do not have any information on...
Back in 1907 Julius Neubronner designed a miniature camera that he mounted on homing pigeons. For a brief point in time this was a very unique and interesting form of aerial...
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite, as the name implies, contains an active radar sensor and a passive radiometer. This was successfully launched on 29 January...
A recent study by Lahouari Bounoua, a climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, has revealed interesting details that contribute to our understanding the urban...
NASA recently launched the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite to provide real-time solar wind monitoring. After traveling for more than 100 days the satellite...
After more than 9 years and 3 billion miles NASA’s New Horizon mission is now doing a flyby of Pluto and Charon. The satellite has passed within 8,000 km of the former...
The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the Sentinel-2A satellite yesterday. The satellite payload features 13 spectral bands in the visible, NIR, and SWIR...
