For more than half a century, satellites have been circling Earth, photographing forests, coastlines, farmlands, and cities with a consistency and precision that no other space program has matched.

Artist's concept of the Landsat 8 satellite NASA launched in February 2013. Credit: Orbital ATK WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators already skeptical of NASA’s plan to explore hosted payload and ...

The Landsat program has revolutionized how we view the Earth during its forty continuous years of operation. The reams of data generated by seven generations of satellites has helped govern both ...

An Atlas 5 lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Sept. 27 carrying the Landsat 9 satellite. Credit: ULA WASHINGTON — An Atlas 5 successfully launched the latest in the Landsat ...

The Landsat Program comprises a series of Earth-observing satellite missions of, thus far, six satellites. The Program is jointly managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Department ...

NASA has put together a video full of clips from 1972, the year the first Landsat satellite launched into space. NASA has put together a video full of clips from 1972, the year the first Landsat ...

On a warm July day in 1972, NASA launched a new Earth-imaging satellite called the Earth Resources Technology Satellite. "ERTS" was the first satellite of what later became NASA and the U.S.

Over the coming decades the United States and the world face growing challenges related to an increasing population, rising demand for natural resources, concerns about food security, and a changing ...

The American sage Yogi Berra once said: "You can see a lot by just looking." The Landsat program is the longest continuous global record of Earth observations from space – ever. Since its first ...

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 ...

A sustained land imaging program pays close attention not only to data acquisition, but equally to data management, data products, and data availability. Satellite data, which were once largely ...