Two NASA/Langley satellites will be launched next month to examine clouds and aid weather forecasting. After two years of delays, NASA announced plans Thursday to launch two satellites next month that ...

It was supposed to be a three-year mission, but it turned into a few billion more measurements and seven extra years of science. On Thursday, April 21, NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, ...

NASA’s Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) and CloudSat satellites are set to launch aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket at 3:02 a.m. PDT on Friday, April 21, from ...

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The research center and its partners are anxious for the satellite and its companion, CloudSat, to launch. Chip Trepte searched for an analogy for his excitement, then decided a racetrack offered it. ...

A 5-year-old NASA satellite has hit a mindboggling milestone high above Earth: The spacecraft snapped its 3 billionth image of the planet … that's right, 3 billion. The prolific Earth-observation ...