NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet is housed and processed at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. Discovery (OV-103)…
Mediterranean heat map
Summer in Europe means time for the beach. Testing the waters is a traditional holiday ritual:…
Crossing Africa with EGNOS
Flying over Africa using navigation information via satellite is what the European Space Agency (ESA) is…
Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, at the end of the world’s twelfth longest river, as seen by Envisat…
GENE CERNAN AWARDED
Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan received NASA’s first Ambassador of Exploration Award during a special…
GAMMA-RAY BURST
NASA scientists have, for the first time, detected and pinned down the location of a short…
New moon making waves
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft has confirmed earlier suspicions of an unseen moon hidden in a gap…
HIGH ALTITUDE RESEARCH
NASA and student researchers at four universities combined efforts to analyze characteristics of the Earth’s atmosphere…
Dust Storms linked to health risk
Medical researchers are using satellites to track massive dust storms blowing across Africa’s Sahel belt. The…
Angolan Marburg outbreak
World Health Organisation personnel combating an Angolan outbreak of the lethal Marburg virus used high-resolution satellite-based…