PARIS—The failure of the radar instrument on NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite will have no effect on the European Space Agency’s purchase of U.S. technology similar to what is ...

Less than four months after lift-off, testing on NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory is complete, and science operations have begun. The data recorded by the mission, which will ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Foreign Agricultural Service issues frequent forecasts on the health of crops worldwide to help individual farmers, businesses and government agencies ...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully conducted a rare Delta II launch on Saturday morning, at 6:22 am local, following a scrub on Thursday, along with a debonding of insulation on the booster ...

LOMPOC, CALIF. (CBSLA.com) — Minutes before the sun dawned on the coast of central California on Saturday, NASA looked to the skies, and launched a critical part of its Earth Sciences mission into Low ...

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For scientists now studying the voluminous amounts of data collected daily by NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, speed is everything. A new NASA-developed data-transmission technology ...