Browse Archive
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NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons
05.21.13 - In Antarctica in January, 2013 scientists released 20 balloons, to study the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth and how they lose particles, causing electrons from the belts to stream down toward the poles.
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IRIS Mission Readies For a New Challenge
05.20.13 - NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission to observe a mysterious region of the solar atmosphere that may be crucial to understanding what powers space weather.
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Marshall Islands Campaign Completed
05.09.13 - The launch of a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket on May 9 brought to an end a very successful campaign studying ionospheric activity and its impact on radio, communication and navigation signals.
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Second and Third Sounding Rockets Launched from the Marshall Islands
05.07.13 - The Equatorial Vortex Experiment was successfully conducted on May 7 from the Marshall Islands when a NASA Terrier-Oriole sounding rocket was launched followed by the launch of a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket 90 seconds later.
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First of Four Sounding Rockets Launched from the Marshall Islands
05.01.13 - A NASA sounding rocket supporting a study of ionosphere and its impact on radio transmissions was launched at 3:38 a.m. EDT, May 1 from Roi-Namur, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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NASA Mission to Study What Disrupts Radio Waves
04.25.13 - A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch this spring to observe the formation of electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere that can negatively affect satellite communication and global positioning signals.
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NASA Invites the Public to Fly Along with Voyager
04.24.13 - NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are on the verge of plunging into interstellar space -- the space between stars -- and two new Web tools let the public fly along.
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Media Accreditation Open for California Solar Mission Launch
04.23.13 - Media planning to cover the launch of NASA's IRIS mission on June 26, 2013 in California should apply for accreditation by June 18.
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Three Years of SDO Images
05.10.13 - Since it first provided images of the sun in spring 2010, SDO has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum.
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EUNIS: Six Minutes in the Life of the Sun
04.23.13 - The EUNIS experiment was successfully launched at 1:30 pm EDT on April 23, 2013 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Preliminary data shows that the experiment performed as planned.
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Solar Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg AFB for Launch
04.17.13 - IRIS spacecraft arrives at VAFB for final preparations for a NET May 28 launch aboard a Pegasus rocket.
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Solar Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg AFB for Launch
04.17.13 - IRIS spacecraft arrives at VAFB for final preparations for a NET May 28 launch aboard a Pegasus rocket.
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NASA’s Wind Mission Encounters ‘SLAMS’ Waves
04.16.13 - SLAMS, or short large amplitude magnetic structures, have been spotted in the froth of waves in front of Earthspace as it moves through the solar system. They create a magnetic mirror reflecting fast ion beams into space.
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Celebrating CINDI on Its Fifth Anniversary
04.15.13 - On April 16, 2008, a suite of NASA instruments was launched to study a unique region of space: the electrically charged portion of the upper atmosphere called the ionosphere, a region crucial for radio communications.
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NASA Sounding Rockets Support Studies in the Ionosphere During 2013 Kwajalein Launch Campaign
04.03.13 - NASA sounding rockets are taking science to the Earth’s ionosphere to study radio frequency propagation as well as space weather and its impact on communication and navigation systems, during the 2013 Kwajalein launch campaign.