LEIA Stories

Imagine trying to photograph wind. That’s similar to what NASA engineers dealt with during a recent effort to study how air moves around planes, rockets, and other kinds of aerospace vehicles. Air is invisible, but our understanding of how it…

Use data from NASA’s Magnetosphere Multiscale Mission to shed light on solar storms. For anyone with a laptop or cell.

A small but mighty piece of lab equipment, about the size of a cellphone, has arrived at the International Space Station after launching with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission. NASA aims to use the off-the-shelf device, called a microplate reader, to…

A vivid display of the aurora lit up skies over the Denmark Strait and eastern Canada during a minor geomagnetic storm in February 2026.

The CSDA Program added three digital elevation and terrain products from Vantor’s Precision3D Product Line to the Satellite Data Explorer.

The CSDA Program has added imagery from Vantor to its Satellite Data Explorer (SDX) data access and discovery tool.

The CSDA Program has added multispectral archive and tasked data from Satellogic to the Satellite Data Explorer.

The CSDA Program's Data Acquisition Request System lets authorized users submit proposals for yet-to-be-collected data from CSDA’s commercial partners.

The CSDA Program announced eight new agreements that will give users more access to multispectral and synthetic aperture radar data.

Looking at Chlorophyll from Space By Compton “Jim” Tucker NASA scientists are able to study plants from space, but this wasn’t always the case. “I love using satellite data to study the Earth,” says Dr. Compton “Jim” Tucker. When Tucker…


