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Mechanical technicians crane lift the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) onto the Tilt Mechanism. OCI is a highly advanced...
NASA Telemetry Manager Mark Levigne confirmed the separation of the OSTM_Jason-2 spacecraft. The satellite will be...
jsc2025e044726 (5/12/2025) --- Solar Flare X-Ray Timing Instrument (SFXTI) integrated on Space Test Program –...
GRACE-FO has completed its first mission phase and demonstrated the performance of the precise ranging system that...
Mechanical technicians crane lift the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) off of the transportation dolly. OCI is a highly...
iss050e016008 (12/14/2016) --- A view during Position Sensitive-Tissue Equivalent Proportional Chamber (PS-TEPC)...
Armando Piloto, OSTM mission manager, describes the processing of the spacecraft for launch. The OSTM_Jason-2...
GEDI is a full-waveform lidar instrument that makes detailed measurements of the 3D structure of the Earth’s...
Omar Baez, NASA Launch Director takes a final launch readiness poll. The OSTM satellite will be placed in an...
NASA's DC-8 plane flew over Alaska and Canada, measuring carbon dioxide and methane in the Arctic air. The plane...
The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) is installed on the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) observatory...
iss050e016013 (12/14/2016) --- A view during Position Sensitive-Tissue Equivalent Proportional Chamber (PS-TEPC)...
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation...
A recent flight test series is allowing NASA to examine improvements made to a flight instrument, designed to...
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation...
Measurements from NASA MESSENGER MLA instrument during the spacecraft greater than four-year orbital mission have...
WFIRST, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, is shown here in an artist's rendering. It will carry a Wide Field...
Meet the team designing and building the Psyche mission's gamma ray and neutron spectrometer. This instrument on the...
In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a technician remove a protective...
NASA Conducts Airborne Science Aboard Zeppelin Airship: equipped with two imaging instruments enabling remote...
In this annotated infrared image, six cyclones form a hexagonal pattern around a central cyclone at Jupiter's south...
In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and engineers remove...
A new, smaller cyclone can be seen at the lower right of this infrared image of Jupiter's south pole taken on Nov....
In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and engineers...