Artist's concept of the Landsat 8 satellite NASA launched in February 2013. Credit: Orbital ATK WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators already skeptical of NASA’s plan to explore hosted payload and ...

For more than half a century, satellites have been circling Earth, photographing forests, coastlines, farmlands, and cities with a consistency and precision that no other space program has matched.

The Landsat program has revolutionized how we view the Earth during its forty continuous years of operation. The reams of data generated by seven generations of satellites has helped govern both ...

Landsat images acquired in 1992 and 2012 (top and bottom, respectively) show the transformation of China’s Binhai New Area from salt farms, reed marshes and wasteland to one of China’s key economic ...

The Landsat Program comprises a series of Earth-observing satellite missions of, thus far, six satellites. The Program is jointly managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Department ...

Landsat 9 successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:12 a.m. aboard United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket, marking the satellite program's 50th anniversary and ULA's 2,000th launch ...

NASA has put together a video full of clips from 1972, the year the first Landsat satellite launched into space. NASA has put together a video full of clips from 1972, the year the first Landsat ...

A sustained land imaging program pays close attention not only to data acquisition, but equally to data management, data products, and data availability. Satellite data, which were once largely ...

Continuity Mission Satellite (LDCM) satellite. Upon its launch from California in early 2013, LDCM will be known as Landsat 8 and will continue the NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth ...

For the past 40 years, NASA’s Landsat Program has provided a continuous global record of the Earth’s surface—the longest such record ever. The satellites have provided an unmatched, breathtaking view ...

Remote sensing experts from Rochester Institute of Technology are using innovative approaches to help scientists in government and the private sector monitor changes in the Earth’s surface temperature ...

Over the coming decades the United States and the world face growing challenges related to an increasing population, rising demand for natural resources, concerns about food security, and a changing ...