Launched on Atlas rockets, Centaur D-1 stages Launched the Surveyor Lunar landers, Mariners 6, 7, 8,and 9, several Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) missions, as well as a number of communications and test satellites. The Centaur D was flown 24 times between 1965 and 1972. Centaur ...
San Francisco-based startup Planet Labs released the first images of Earth taken by its Dove 1 and 2 satellites in April and May 2013.
From 2021 to 2022, Zhang took photos of the rocket launch for Building the Tiangong space station. "It's like watching a huge toy being made in space," Zhang said. Now, there are just two space stations orbiting the Earth: the International Space Station and Tiangong. Zhang said, "In ...
From 2012 to 2022, Zhang took photos of the rocket launch for watching the Tiangong space station, like watching a big key turn made in space," Zhang said.Now there are just two space stations orbiting the Earth: the International Space Station and Tiangong Zhang said, "In 1976, we only...
Despite its raw beauty, the storms were a major cause of concern among satellite operators, including SpaceX, which, as of this writing, has 5,999 Starlink satellites orbiting around Earth. Elon Musk posted, acknowledging thatit would be a major test for their constellation, which had previousl...
And seeing satellites from Earth is not a one-time event. The International Space Station, for example, has been orbiting Earth since 1998 and completes one trip around the planet every 90 minutes. "It's certainly not something that's limited to happening just a few times a year," Gentry...
Photos of Solar Flares Alter Perception of SunImages taken from two satellites orbiting above Earth haverevealed our closest star - the sun -...Judy Silber
From 2021 to 2022, Zhang took photos of the rocket launch for building the Tiangong space station. "It's like watching a huge toy being made in space," Zhang said. Now, there are just two space stations orbiting the Earth. The International Space Station and Tiangong. Zhang said, "In ...
Tiny Earth-observing Dove satellites operated by the California company Planet have spied the giant cargo ship that's blocking the Suez Canal, as well as the traffic jam caused by the vessel's plight.
All photos: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center In the years since the 2011 launch of the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite, Román and colleagues have been analyzing...