NASA selects two Earth System Explorers missions

Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to ...
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White House withholds NASA science funds

Officials have directed the space agency to pause funds for a host of science missions the White House originally pushed to cancel in its 2026 budget request, according to a letter sent to the ...

NASA selects UC San Diego-led satellite mission to track Earth’s changing systems

NASA has selected UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to lead the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) satellite mission, which will monitor land, vegetation, ice sheets and coastal ...
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UB scientists selected for NASA satellite mission to map Earth’s ice sheets and ecosystems

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) team was one of two teams selected out of four finalists for NASA’s Earth System ...
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Controlling Cost Growth of NASA Earth and Space Science Missions

The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) conducts both Earth and space science missions. The latter type encompasses missions in planetary ...
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Goddard wins two NASA Earth missions to help predict, reduce harm from environmental disasters

Two new satellite missions will help NASA scientists better understand Earth and improve the ability to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters. And the agency says they’ll be led out of ...
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An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions

Joseph K. Alexander, National Research Council (NRC), “Summary of the SSB report Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA’s Science Programs: Engines for Innovation and Synthesis (1998),” January ...