SORCE provides measurements of incoming X-ray, ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, and total solar radiation.Launch: January 2003Operating Network: Near Space Network
Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency posted this photograph of windswept valleys in Northern Africa,…
STEREO consists of two nearly identical spacecraft that seek to establish a one-to-one cause and effect relationship between coronal mass…
THEMIS consists of five small satellites which carry identical suites of electric, magnetic, and particle detectors that study the colorful…
The twin Van Allen Probes study the Van Allen radiation belts and discriminate between proposed energetic particle acceleration, transport, and…
NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, will be the most powerful rocket in history. The flexible, evolvable design of this…
NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, will be the most powerful rocket in history. The flexible, evolvable design of this…
NASA’s Lear 24 was modified as an airborne test aircraft, but on June 7, 2001, it was involved in a…
Graphic showing the approximate positions for the STEREO spacecrafts for July 2014.
This image shows a Scale Model Acoustic Test for NASA’s Space Launch System, conducted on July 2, 2014.
