Credit: NASA During a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday NASA will discuss the findings of investigations into the 2024 crewed test flight of Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station. The news conference will stream live on NASA’s YouTube channel. An instant replay will be available online. NASA participants include: Administrator Jared [...]

4 min read Vantor Archive Imagery Added to Satellite Data Explorer A high-resolution multispectral image of Washington, DC from Vantor. Visible are the Washington Monument (left), Tidal Basin (the body of water in the center-right), and the Jefferson Memorial (right). Credit: Vantor NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announces the addition of imagery [...]

4 min read CSDA Releases New Data Acquisition Request System This screen capture of the SDX dashboard shows a map of Earth’s surface, and on the right, the search filters SDX users can manipulate to find the imagery that they need. Credit: CSDA NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program released a new Data [...]

CSDA Program Announces Eight New Data Agreements This Spotlight Mode SAR image from Capella Space shows a portion of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 21, 2021. Credit: Capella Space NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announced eight new agreements with seven of its commercial partners— Airbus Defense and Space GEO Inc (Airbus U.S.), [...]

6 min read The Sky Belongs to All of Us By Hashima Hasan How did a little girl born in India soon after its independence from the British Empire, become a program scientist for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and the first female program scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared [...]

2 min read Notes from the Field Looking at Chlorophyll from Space By Compton “Jim” Tucker Tucker began his ground studies using a handheld instrument built by one of his classmates. “The instrument was literally held together by masking tape and rubber bands.” NASA scientists are able to study plants from space, but this [...]

5 min read 42 Years of Measuring the Sun, the Earth and the Energy in Between By Denise Lineberry NASA’s Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), a part of the NASA’s three satellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), was designed to investigate how energy from the Sun is absorbed and re-emitted by the Earth. On [...]

4 min read Measuring the Big Bang with the COBE satellite By John Mather The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous orbit 900 km up. Our team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Ball Aerospace, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) [...]

7 min read Peering Homeward, 1972 By Laura Rocchio The scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard looking at the first MSS images were looking at just one band of data, so the images appeared black and white to them. The image shows the area on that July 25, 1972 image that initially had them [...]

4 min read My NASA Experience By Marcia J. Rieke The development of infrared detector arrays is intertwined with my experiences working on NASA projects. As an astronomer at a university, my interactions with NASA all start with a proposal in response to an opportunity. In 1983, near-infrared detector arrays were beginning to attract [...]