The Landsat 8 satellite is scheduled for launch from the Vandenburg Air Force Base in California this Monday, February 11, between 10.02 a.m. and 10.50 a.m. (PST). Pitched as the most important NASA ...

On June 16, 2025, NASA's Landsat 8 satellite caught a chain of elongated, oval lagoons near Billings and Cape Billings on Russia's Chukchi Peninsula that lines up so perfectly that — when viewed from ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On Monday NASA launched Landsat 9, the newest in a series of Earth ...

Editor's note: On Sept. 15, NASA and the United Launch Alliance announced that they would further delay the launch of Landsat 9 to no earlier than Sept. 27. The delay accounts for high wind forecasts ...

NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft was successfully placed in orbit earlier this week. The mission marks the continuation of the 40-year Landsat Earth-observation program, which ...

NASA's latest Earth-observation satellite blasted off today (Feb. 11), continuing a storied four-decade effort to track environmental change and resource use across the planet. The Landsat Data ...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket successfully launched NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) payload on Feb. 11. 2013, from Space Launch Complex-3, Vandenberg Air Force Base, ...

WASHINGTON — A fter spending several months revising its procurement approach to a new land-imaging satellite to please a key U.S. lawmaker, NASA is finally ready to get started on the project, known ...

Landsat 5 has secured a new world record title for being the longest-operating Earth observation satellite after almost three decades in orbit. Guinness World Records sent an email confirmation to ...

As a former NASA Earth scientist, I keep a close eye on space-related activities of all types. In recent months, there has been quite the media buzz about space tourists being lofted into space (or ...

For over 40 years, Landsat has quietly but consistently been taking images of the surface of the Earth, amassing an impressive collection of data about our planet. This month, NASA and the U.S.