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 ...

WASHINGTON — Despite the July failure of the radar on NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite, scientists hope to salvage the $1 billion mission by enhancing data from its other sensor ...

NASA has successfully launched its Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket. The orbiter is designed to take high resolution moisture maps on a global ...

NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission is designed to study the moisture content of the entire Earth's topsoil like never before. The results, scientists say, could help predict droughts, ...

NASA mission controllers have successfully deployed the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory’s reflector antenna, in what is an important step along the road towards the satellite becoming ...

One of the two science instruments aboard a NASA Earth-observing satellite that launched earlier this year has failed, agency officials say. The radar instrument on NASA's $916 million Soil Moisture ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A key instrument on a $1 billion NASA satellite has failed, reducing scientists' ability to capture data to measure the moisture in Earth's soil in order to improve flood ...