
The payload fairing is installed on the Orbital Sciences Antares rocket at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore,…

The Cassini spacecraft captures three magnificent sights at once: Saturn’s north polar vortex and hexagon along with its expansive rings.

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center operates two Beechcraft B200 Super King Air aircraft for flight research and mission support.

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…