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Antares Fairing Installed
Antares Fairing Installed

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

Vortex and Rings
Vortex and Rings

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

Super King Air B200
Super King Air B200

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

SOlar Radiation & Climate Experiment (SORCE)
SOlar Radiation & Climate Experiment (SORCE)

SORCE provides measurements of incoming X-ray, ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, and total solar radiation.Launch: January 2003Operating Network: Near Space Network

Windswept Valleys in Northern Africa
Windswept Valleys in Northern Africa

Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency posted this photograph of windswept valleys in Northern Africa,…

Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)

STEREO consists of two nearly identical spacecraft that seek to establish a one-to-one cause and effect relationship between coronal mass…

Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS)/ARTEMIS
Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS)/ARTEMIS

THEMIS consists of five small satellites which carry identical suites of electric, magnetic, and particle detectors that study the colorful…

Van Allen Probes
Van Allen Probes

The twin Van Allen Probes study the Van Allen radiation belts and discriminate between proposed energetic particle acceleration, transport, and…

America’s Next Rocket
America’s Next Rocket

NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, will be the most powerful rocket in history. The flexible, evolvable design of this…

America’s Next Rocket
America’s Next Rocket

NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, will be the most powerful rocket in history. The flexible, evolvable design of this…