Science Mission Directorate

Sentinel-6B
Earth
Earth Science Division
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Science Mission Directorate
About the size of a full-size pickup truck, a newly launched satellite by NASA and its partners will provide ocean and atmospheric information to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial activities, such as shipping.
Posted November 17, 2025
Sentinel-6B
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Jason-CS (Continuity of Service) / Sentinel-6
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Kennedy Space Center
NASA Headquarters
Oceans
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Sentinel-6B, an international mission delivering critical sea level and ocean data to protect coastal infrastructure, improve weather forecasting, and support commercial activities at sea. Launch is targeted at 12:21 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 17 (9:21 p.m. PST, Sunday, Nov.
Posted November 14, 2025
EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)
Heliophysics
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launched at 3:55 p.m.
Posted November 14, 2025
Langley Research Center
B200
General
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Modeling
NASA Aircraft
Radiation
Science & Research
Science in the Air
Science Mission Directorate
Space Weather
Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to air travelers and validating global radiation maps used in flight path planning.
Posted September 26, 2025
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Earth Science Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Headquarters
Science Mission Directorate
The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing radar satellite’s first images of our planet’s surface are in, and they offer a glimpse of things to come as the joint mission between NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) approaches full science operations later this year.
Posted September 25, 2025
NASA en español
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Earth Science
Exosphere
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliosphere
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Kennedy Space Center
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Space Weather
Read this press release in English here. La NASA y la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés) lanzaron el miércoles tres nuevas misiones para investigar la influencia del Sol en todo el sistema solar. A las 7:30 a. m. EDT, un cohete Falcon 9 de SpaceX despegó del Complejo de Lanzamiento […]
Posted September 24, 2025
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Earth Science
Exosphere
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliosphere
Kennedy Space Center
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Space Weather
Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three new missions Wednesday to investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system. At 7:30 a.m.
Posted September 24, 2025
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
Ames Research Center
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Johnson Space Center
Science Mission Directorate
As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an option to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole region. NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) will search for volatile resources, such as ice, on the lunar surface […]
Posted September 19, 2025
Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (GLIDE)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Missions
NASA Directorates
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
The Sun
Uncategorized
This story is also available in Spanish. A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,” the faint light given off by our planet’s outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the Sun. Understanding the physics of the exosphere is a key step toward forecasting dangerous conditions […]
Posted September 18, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Summary Space is a dangerous place — one that NASA continues to explore for the benefit of all. It’s filled with radiation and high-energy particles that can damage DNA and circuit boards alike. Yet life endures in our solar system in part because of the heliosphere, a giant bubble created by the Sun that extends […]
Posted September 17, 2025
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