t's active. It's passive. And it's got a big, spinning lasso. Scheduled for launch on Jan. 29, 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instrument will measure the moisture lodged in Earth's ...

WASHINGTON — One of the two main science instruments on NASA’s $915 million Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft remains out of action more than a month after abruptly switching off, but ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Later this month NASA plans to launch the “Soil Moisture Active Passive” (SMAP) instrument. It ...

Mission managers for NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory have determined that its radar, one of the satellite’s two science instruments, can no longer return data. However, the ...

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE >> Half of the two, large science instruments in a breakthrough Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led satellite project broke about seven months after the mission began, NASA announced ...

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 ...

NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite SMAP, has triumphantly raised its “arm” and unfurled a huge golden antenna that it will soon spin up to rope the best soil moisture maps ever obtained from ...

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 ...

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Scheduled for launch on Jan. 29, 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instrument will measure the moisture lodged in Earth's soils with an unprecedented accuracy and resolution. The ...