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.

Agriculture places a heavy demand on declining water supplies. Yet each year, over-irrigation wastes huge amounts of water. Farmers in Bangladesh — like so many places around the world — face ...

Among all Earth observation initiatives, the Landsat program stands out for longevity and continuity. Its roots go back to the launch of the Earth Resources Technology Satellite in July 1972, a ...

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 ...

In May, about 30 miles from the ominously named town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, a conflagration began. Known as the Black Fire, it soon blew up, growing explosively and consuming huge ...

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 ...

NASA’s Landsat satellites have consistently made history in Earth observation since the project’s first launch in 1972, with this year marking 50 years of innovation and science. Its influence may ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is developing electronics and flight software for the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat 10 satellite, which is set to launch in 2031 to collect new and ...

Today the U.S. Geological Survey announced that Landsat 5 will be decommissioned over the coming months, bringing to a close the longest-operating Earth observing satellite mission in history. By any ...