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51I-S-237 (1 Sept. 1985) --- A still photo made from a video downlink shows astronaut James D. van Hoften, just...
This vehicle served as a mobile terminal for the Communications Technology Satellite. The Communications Technology...
STS075-325-014 (25 Feb. 1996) --- The frayed end of the tether portion of the Tethered Satellite System (TSS) is...
TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) Edited Launch Coverage
Cutaway views of the possible internal structures of the Galilean satellites. Ganymede at lower left, Callisto at...
Artist rendering of the Soil Moisture Active Passive SMAP satellite. The width of the region scanned on Earth...
In this "family portrait," the four Galilean Satellites are shown to scale. These four largest moons of Jupiter...
jsc2022e031228 (6/28/2021) --- A preflight view of the TUMnanoSAT satellite. TUMnanoSAT is an educational Cubesat...
ISS033-E-009458 (4 Oct. 2012) --- Several tiny satellites are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition...
ISS033-E-009334 (4 Oct. 2012) --- Several tiny satellites are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition...
ISS033-E-009315 (4 Oct. 2012) --- Several tiny satellites are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition...
ISS038-E-003876 (19 Nov. 2013) --- Three nanosatellites, known as Cubesats, are featured in this image photographed...
The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite took these images of the Carr...
NASA Astrophysics Division director Paul Hertz, left, Sara Seager, TESS deputy director of science, MIT, George...
NASA Astrophysics Division director Paul Hertz, left, Sara Seager, TESS deputy director of science, MIT, George...
NASA Astrophysics Division director Paul Hertz, left, Sara Seager, TESS deputy director of science, MIT, George...
NASA Astrophysics Division director Paul Hertz, left, Sara Seager, TESS deputy director of science, MIT, George...
All was well at the North Pole this summer, when Santa and his elves were busily making toys and taking orders for...
NASA image acquired March 18, 2010. Tropical Cyclone Ului persisted south of the Solomon Islands on March 18, 2010....
As icy cold Canadian air settled over the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. bringing snow and bitter cold, NOAA's...
NASA image captured April 12, 2011 at 1731 UTC (1:31 p.m. EDT) A giant swirl of clouds that form an apostrophe-like...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured two festive-looking nebulas, situated so as to appear as one. They reside in...
NOAA's GOES-East satellite provided a look at the frigid eastern two-thirds of the U.S. on Jan. 7, 2015, that shows...
Technicians conduct integration and testing of NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere)...