NASA’s Europa Mission Begins with Selection of Science Instruments
WASHINGTON, May 26, 2015 – NASA has selected nine science instruments for a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, to investigate whether the mysterious icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life....
View ArticleClark Labs and the NASA DEVELOP National Program
Clark Labs of Clark University and the NASA DEVELOP National Program have recently signed an agreement for the provision of the TerrSet software for 9 of their research and application nodes. The NASA...
View ArticleNASA Administrator Statement on the Loss of SpaceX CRS-7
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2015 — The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the loss Sunday of the SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services 7 (CRS-7) mission. “We are disappointed in...
View ArticleSatellite Sees Smoky Skies Over World Cup Soccer – Fire and Smoke Cover SW...
This update comes via NASA / MODIS… Soccer fever gripped the U.S. at the same time as the smoke from Canadian wildfires gripped the skies over Vancouver, British Columbia. This was the site of the...
View ArticleEarth Observatory – NASA and A Satellite View of River Width
This from NASA.. Traditionally, hydrologists have estimated the width of rivers by examining topographic maps and backing out calculations from the amount of river discharge measured at certain points...
View ArticleNASA’s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
WASHINGTON, July 14, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto...
View ArticleCorning Optical Assembly Key Component of NASA’s New Horizons Mission Past Pluto
CORNING, N.Y., July 15, 2015 – Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced that a high-precision opto-mechanical assembly manufactured in Corning’s Keene, N.H., facility is part of the imaging...
View ArticleBattling Wildfires from Space: NASA Adds to Firefighters’ Toolkit
U.S. firefighters battling wildfires this year will get a clearer view of these threats with new NASA-funded satellite-based tools to better detect fires nationwide and predict their behavior. The new...
View ArticleNASA DataViz – A Tale of Two Extremes: Rainfall Across the US
An interesting data visualization has been shared by NASA, revealing the latest status of accumulated precipitation in America From NASA… The United States has seen a tale of two extremes this year,...
View ArticleNASA Awards Contract for Software, Maintenance
NASA has awarded a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to Esri in Redlands, California, to provide geospatial software licenses and maintenance. This BPA offers provisions for issuance of firm-fixed...
View ArticleCulberson Keeps His Word To Restore NASA to the Glory Days of Apollo
Washington, DC– Representative John Culberson (TX-07) today issued the following statement regarding the funding appropriated to NASA in the fiscal year 2016 omnibus bill. “This is the largest vote of...
View ArticleEsri and NASA Collaborate to Advance Cloud Access to Imagery
Esri Opens LERC to the Geospatial Community Redlands, California—December 17, 2015—Esri and NASA are collaborating to improve access to imagery and raster data stored in the cloud using a combination...
View ArticleNASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal Record-Shattering Global Warm Temperatures in 2015
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2016 – Earth’s 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and...
View ArticleNASA is Giving Away Free, Retro Space Tourism Posters
From NASA – Exotic Cosmic Locales Available as Space Tourism Posters Imagination is our window into the future. New travel posters from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, envision...
View ArticleNASA purchases 24 Leica Nova MS50 MultiStations
Leica Geosystems announced that NASA has purchased 24 additional Leica Nova MS50 MultiStations, bringing their total number of MS50 MultiStations to 34. These precise total stations with integrated...
View ArticleNASA Awards Grants to Nine Informal Learning Institutions
NASA has awarded almost $10 million in grants to informal education organizations in seven states to help inspire the next generation of scientists and explorers. The organizations include two...
View ArticleNASA’s Kepler Confirms 100-Plus Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission
TUCSON, Ariz. — An international team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission. Among...
View ArticleNASA’s CYGNSS Launch Takes Surrey Satellite’s Space GNSS Receiver into Orbit
ENGLEWOOD, COLO., December 15, 2016 — Surrey Satellite Technology’s Space GNSS Receiver Remote Sensing Instrument (SGR-ReSI) is the primary payload onboard NASA’s CYGNSS constellation, launched today,...
View Article2017 Solar Eclipse: Census Bureau Statistics
TIP SHEET: CB17-TPS.63 AUG. 10, 2017 — On Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, all of North America will experience an eclipse of the sun. The solar eclipse path of totality will stretch from Salem, Ore., to...
View ArticleNASA Sees Irma Strengthen to a Category 5 Hurricane
NASA and NOAA satellites have been providing valuable satellite imagery to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center, and revealed that Hurricane Irma has strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane on...
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