A United Launch Alliance-branded Delta II rocket took to the skies from a Vandenberg Air Force Base, California-based launch pad on Saturday to deploy NASA’s next-generation Ice, Cloud, and land ...

WASHINGTON — A pair of international Earth observing spacecraft will now launch six months later than planned because of a roughly $200 million cost overrun on NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation ...

CORRECTION: The article now contains the correct figure for NASA spending to date on IceSat-2. WASHINGTON — With the project likely to bust its $559 million development budget, NASA is preparing a ...

The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, is NASA's most technologically advanced ice-monitoring spacecraft to date. Capable of measuring changes in ice thickness, forest growth and ...

A year after its launch - and now with more than a trillion laser pulses under its belt - the lidar equipment on board NASA's ICESat-2 satellite is said to be providing "potentially transformational" ...

NASA's Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has selected United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo., to provide Delta II launch services for the Ice, Cloud and ...

Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, a team of scientists including glaciologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of ...

NASA’s last Delta II rocket blasted into the atmosphere from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday carrying the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), Space.com reported, ...

NASA is about to launch the agency's most advanced laser instrument of its kind into space. The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, will provide critical observations of how ice ...

With each pass of the ICESat-2 satellite, the mission is adding to datasets tracking Earth's rapidly changing ice. Less than three months into its mission, NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation ...