The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with the Landsat 9 satellite onboard launched on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
NASA's Delta-X Helps With Disaster Response in Wake of Hurricane Ida
Oil tends to smooth out the bumps on the ocean's surface, which results in a distinct radar signal that the Delta-X mission was able to pick out of their data.
NASA's MISR Instrument Sees California Wildfire Smoke Plumes From Space
As of Aug. 24, 2021, wildfires in Northern California—including the McCash, Antelope, River Complex, Monument and Dixie fires—have scorched more than 1 million acres of land. The Dixie Fire, the state’s second-largest in history, accounts for 731,310 acres. On...
Roaming the Depths: The Role of Autonomous Assets in the EXPORTS Campaign
Satellites have undoubtedly opened up new ways for scientists to study the ocean, giving us global coverage of the surface of the ocean without ever having to step foot on a ship. But how can we learn what lies beneath the surface? The classic way oceanographers study...
Three HawkEye 360 Formation-Flying Microsatellites Successfully Launched
Carried aboard the June 30, 2021, SpaceX Transporter 2 mission, the Cluster 3 formation-flying microsatellites join in orbit the HawkEye 360 Cluster 2 and Cluster 1 Pathfinder satellites.
NASA Maps Air Quality in Ozone Hotspot
Scientists are flying an airborne campaign out of NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., to contribute to a joint U.S.-Canadian study on air quality in a region with high surface ozone levels.
ESA Flying Payloads on Wooden Satellite
WISA Woodsat is a 10x10x10 centimeter CubeSat, a type of nanosatellite built up from standardised boxes, but with surface panels made from plywood.
Arizona's Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater (also called Barringer Meteor Crater) is located between Flagstaff and Winslow on the Colorado Plateau. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired this image of the area on May 16, 2021.
Tracking Carbon from the Ocean Surface to the Twilight Zone
A seaward journey, supported by both NASA and the National Science Foundation, set sail in the northern Atlantic in early May 2021”the sequel to a complementary expedition, co-funded by NSF, that took place in the northern Pacific in 2018.
Norwegian Space Agency Launches Maritime Tracking Microsatellite
The Norwegian Space Agency successfully launched the NorSat-3 maritime tracking microsatellite built by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) on April 28, 2021, aboard Vega Flight VV 18 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
