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The U.S. Geological Survey says its 25-year-old Landsat 5 satellite is back in service collecting data after beginning to tumble in space last month. Engineers at the USGS Landsat Flight Operations Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., said the historically reliable Earth observation satellite began tumbling Aug. 13. Scientists immediately started processes to protect the satellite and to restore capability. Landsat 5 continues to collect data, the USGS said in a statement. In fact, the one-millionth...

Back in 2002, NASA created a film using satellite data that took viewers on a tour of Earth's frozen regions. This year, NASA visualizers are taking viewers on a return trip to see how things have changed over the years."The Tour of the Cryosphere 2009" combines satellite imagery and state-of-the-art computer animation software to create a fact-filled and visually stunning tour that shows viewers the icy reaches of Antarctica, the glacier-pocked regions along the Andes Mountains,...

The U.S. Geological Survey says it has stabilized its Landsat 5 satellite that tumbled out of control Aug. 13, but imaging operations have been suspended. The USGS Landsat Flight Operations Team said the cause of the incident was still undetermined, the satellite's power remains at a critically low level and the extent of damage had not yet been identified. Landsat 5 has proven to be a remarkable success and has given the science community important information on land features of the...

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a major corporate sponsor of Forum on Earth Observations III: The Environmental Information Revolution, which will convene in Washington, D.C. on July 30, 2009. The Forum is organized by the Alliance for Earth Observations, of which Lockheed Martin is a member, and will bring together key leaders who are developing solutions to meet the unprecedented demand for information about our changing planet. Participants from...

The U.S. space agency says it's celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Landsat 5 satellite, which was launched March 1, 1984, and is still in operation. Now 22 years beyond its three-year primary mission lifetime, Landsat 5 -- built by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the U.S. Geological Survey -- is also well beyond its design lifetime of 15,000 Earth orbits. NASA said Landsat 5 is one of seven satellites in the Landsat Program but only Landsat 5 and 7, the...

132,969 ... 132,970 ... 132,971. Like a trusty watch counting up the minutes, the Landsat 5 satellite keeps on ticking, orbit after orbit around Earth. Well beyond its design lifetime of 15,000 orbits, the satellite's trajectory could go askew or its instruments could malfunction at any moment.But not today.Still observing the Earth after 25 years -- 22 beyond its three-year primary mission lifetime -- Landsat 5 collects valuable scientific data daily. Some attribute the satellite's longevity...

GREENBELT, Md., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Engineers at the University of Idaho have developed unique new technology that will be used in upcoming NASA missions that will study the Earth and Sun-Earth connection. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Under the general guidance of a grant technical officer Pen-Shu Yeh, a senior engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., the engineering team at the University of Idaho's (U-Idaho)...

Engineers at the University of Idaho have developed unique new technology that will be used in upcoming NASA missions that will study the Earth and Sun-Earth connection.Under the general guidance of a grant technical officer Pen-Shu Yeh, a senior engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., the engineering team at the University of Idaho's (U-Idaho) Center for Advanced Microelectronics Biomolecular Research (CAMBR) located in Post Falls, Idaho, recently developed three...

An Earth-observing satellite that has provided early detection of ocean storms and advanced the scientific exploration of global ocean wind patterns has been recognized for helping scientists better understand our home planet. NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior Tuesday presented William T. Pecora Awards to NASA's Quick Scatterometer, or QuikSCAT, mission team and Samuel N. Goward of the University of Maryland, College Park.The two agencies present individual and group Pecora Awards...

By Tatem, Andrew J Goetz, Scott J; Hay, Simon I Views from space have led to countless advances on the ground in both scientific knowledge and daily life The former Soviet Union's launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, heralded the era of satellite remote sensing. Since that epic moment on October 4,1957, hundreds of Earth-observing satellites have followed. Half a century of imagery has provided both iconic views and unprecedented scientific insights. The science of...