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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY 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) and universities built it to look atContinue reading “Measuring the Big Bang with the COBE satellite”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY 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 Astronomy (SOFIA), Gravity Probe B, andContinue reading “The Sky Belongs to All of Us”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Denise Lineberry On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth orbit. Though its final transmission was in May 1958, it continued to revolve around EarthContinue reading “42 Years of Measuring the Sun, the Earth and the Energy in Between”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Laura Rocchio On July 23, 1972 the first civilian satellite designed to image Earth’s land surfaces was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. On board the satellite, originally named the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), but later known as Landsat 1, were two sensors. The primary sensor,Continue reading “Peering Homeward, 1972”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Looking at Chlorophyll from Space By Compton “Jim” Tucker NASA scientists are able to study plants from space, but this wasn’t always the case. “I love using satellite data to study the Earth,” says Dr. Compton “Jim” Tucker. When Tucker was a graduate student, he and some friends discovered aContinue reading “Notes from the Field”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY By Nancy Grace Roman Looking through the atmosphere is like looking through a piece of old stained glass. The glass has defects that distort the image. The atmosphere also has defects that distort the image, but the defects in the atmosphere move, thus blurring the image as well. The glassContinue reading “The Gestation of the Hubble”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY 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 the attentionContinue reading “My NASA Experience”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Commodity Classic, February 25 – 27, 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #3481) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 4:30 – 4:50 PMNASA: Your Space and Science AgencyKaren St Germain THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 11:00 – 11:20 AMInforming Water and Agricultural ManagementContinue reading “Commodity Classic 2026 Hyperwall Schedule”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As NASA continues preparations for the Artemis II test flight, the agency will provide coverage Thursday, Feb. 19, of its next wet dress rehearsal, a fueling test of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, and hold a news conference on Friday, Feb. 20. Teams are counting down to the opening of a simulated launchContinue reading “NASA to Provide Coverage of Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Fishing boats illuminate the Arabian Sea along India’s west coast with green lights designed to attract squid, shrimp, sardines, and mackerel in this nighttime photograph from the International Space Station, orbiting 259 miles above Earth on Dec. 25, 2025. Studying nighttime light offers a unique perspective for investigations into humanContinue reading “Fishing Boats and City Lights”