* 1960 – Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.

* CALIPSO, NASA's " Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations " satellite

* Hyperion imaging spectrometer, an imaging spectrometer instrument onboard NASA's earth observation satellite Earth Observing-1

In 2009, India's Chandrayaan-1 satellite, NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the Deep Impact probe have each detected the presence of water by evidence of hydroxyl fragments on the Moon.

This exaggerated-colour image of Jersey was taken on September 23, 2000, by NASA's Terra satellite.

Total Solar Irradiance upon Earth ( TSI ) was earlier measured by satellite to be roughly 1. 366 kilowatts per square meter ( kW / m² ), but most recently NASA cites TSI as " 1361 W / m² as compared to ~ 1366 W / m² from earlier observations et al., 2005 ", based on regular readings from NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment ( SORCE ) satellite, active since 2003, noting that this " discovery is critical in examining the energy budget of the planet Earth and isolating the climate change due to human activities.

* November 27 – NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission is launched, the start of the satellite component of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System.

* May 30 – NASA's ATS-6 satellite is launched.

** NASA's Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.

NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Explorer satellite was monitoring Comet Lulin as it closed to 63 Gm of Earth.

This pair of images from NASA's Landsat 5 satellite documents the short history of Death Valley's Lake Badwater: formed in February 2005 ( top ) and long gone by February 2007 ( bottom ).

Prior to the signing of this law, all commercial satellite launches in the United States were limited to NASA's Space Shuttle.

A simulated-color satellite image of Philadelphia taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.

A simulated-color image of Jacksonville, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.

K < sub > u </ sub > band is primarily used for satellite communications, most notably for fixed and broadcast services, and for specific applications such as NASA's Tracking Data Relay Satellite used for both space shuttle and ISS communications.

NASA's AIM ( Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere ) satellite in clean room

* International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project ( ISCCP ), NASA's data products on their satellite observations

McMurdo Station receives both Internet and voice communications by satellite communications with NASA's TDRS satellite system.

Data access to the station is provided by access via NASA's TDRS-F1, Marisat, LES 9, GOES & Iridium satellite constellation.

Image from NASA's Terra satellite

* Humidity Sounder for Brazil MW radiometer instrument on NASA's Earth Observing System satellite Aqua launched in May 2002

* February 11 – NASA's WMAP satellite completes the first detailed cosmic microwave background radiation map of the universe.

The Nimbus technology gave rise to current radiation-budget sensors, such as the CERES instruments on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.

NASA's STEREO mission generates three-dimensional images of the electron density around the sun by measuring this K-corona from two separate satellites.

As early as the 1960s, NASA's Application Technology Satellite ( ATS ) and Advanced Communications Technology Satellite ( ACTS ) programs prototyped many of the technologies used on TDRSS and other commercial communications satellites, including frequency division multiple-access ( FDMA ), three-axis spacecraft stabilization and high-performance communications technologies.

NASA's series of Great Observatories satellites are four large, powerful space-based telescopes.

A few months later he heard Peter Glaser speak about solar power satellites at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

These payloads include the USAF Defense Meteorological Satellite Program ( DMSP ), the NOAA weather satellites, and NASA's Gemini manned space capsules.

For his development of a global temperature data set from satellites he was awarded NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the American Meteorological Society's " Special Award.

* NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center ( PO. DAAC ) Provider of historic and near real time SST data from 14 satellites, spanning 1981 through yesterday

NSIDC serves as one of eight Distributed Active Archive Centers funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to archive and distribute data from NASA's past and current satellites and field measurement programs.

NASA's new Polar Orbiting Density Scanner ( PODS ), part of the Earth Observation System ( EOS ), a collection of satellites monitoring the globe for signs of large-scale change, has found an extremely dense spot in the Milne Ice Shelf.

In 2006 a team of researchers led by Ralph von Frese and Laramie Potts used gravity measurements by NASA's GRACE satellites to discover the 300-mile-wide Wilkes Land crater, which probably formed about 250 million years ago.

This was in addition to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems ' other space assets, e. g. Delta launch vehicles, older-generation GPS satellites, and Rocketdyne and Rockwell's space operations ( which include much of the hardware used in NASA's manned space program, such as the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, rocket engines, etc.

The division currently employs about 16, 000 people, and its most notable products are commercial and military satellites, space probes, missile defense systems, NASA's Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle ( formerly Orion ), and the Space Shuttle External Tank.

For the period of time in between the two satellites NASA's Operation IceBridge is using a DC-8 aircraft to measure ice thickness and collect other data.

The satellites used were Intelsat I ( aka " Early Bird "), Intelsat 2-2 (" Lani Bird "), Intelsat 2-3 (" Canary Bird "), and NASA's ATS-1.

EarthSat products were derived from NASA's Landsat program, Canada's RADARSAT-1 and an entire list of Earth observation satellites.

A reason Von Braun, head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center during the 1960s, advocated for a smaller station after his large one was not built was that he wished to provide his employees with work beyond developing the Saturn rockets, which would be completed relatively early during Project Apollo.

In 1961, Pearlington was one of six communities in Hancock County, Mississippi acquired either wholly ( Gainesville, Logtown, Napoleon, Santa Rosa, and Westonia ) or in part ( a section of northern Pearlington ), along with a combined population of 700 families who were completely relocated to provide a acoustical buffer zone for what was envisioned to be NASA's main rocket testing facility, the John C. Stennis Space Center ( SSC ).

NASA states " Robonauts are essential to NASA's future as we go beyond low earth orbit ", and R2 will provide performance data about how a robot may work side-by-side with astronauts.

NASA's MESSENGER mission may provide additional evidence for or against the presence of ice when it begins orbiting Mercury in 2011.