NASA prepares to launch satellite that will continue historic record of global change. You have full access to this article via your institution. Download PDF When ...

In its five years in space, the Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite has racked up some impressive statistics: 26,500 orbits around the planet, 1.1 million “scenes” captured, a motherlode of images ...

Artist's concept of the Landsat 8 satellite NASA launched in February 2013. Credit: Orbital ATK The successful launch Feb. 11 of the Landsat 8 Earth observation satellite brought sighs of relief from ...

The Landsat program involves a series of satellites that each take tens of thousands of pictures of Earth over their lifetime. The first Landsat satellite was launched into orbit in 1972, which makes ...

The launch next week comes at a time when the future of the world's longest-running set of Earth-observations data is at stake When Landsat 5 fell silent on 6 January, scientists across the globe ...

A Jan. 30 image from the Landsat 8 satellite reveals how the recent precipitation has transformed the water levels at Lake Nacimiento and Lake San Antonio. Photo below shows low water levels on Dec.

Landsat 8, loaded with several technological advancements for better data-gathering, blasted off Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California using an Atlas V rocket. The latest satellite in ...

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have solved a problem nagging NASA’s Landsat 8 Earth-sensing satellite. Stray light in the thermal infrared sensor, or TIRS, reduces accurate temperature ...

A new satellite hovering nearly 450 miles (725 kilometers) above the Earth appears to working flawlessly as it embarks on a 10-year mission to document the planet's surface, scientists and engineers ...

NASA's Landsat program recently turned the big four-oh, and what better way to deal with the mid-life crisis by getting a new satellite as a present? Accordingly, the space agency has just launched ...