Posts tagged "satellite"

A few weeks ago I wrote about the daring defection — and eventual rescue — of a North Korean soldier who barreled across the Demilitarized Zone in a truck and... Read more →

Note: My family last year relocated to Seoul, where my wife is working as a foreign correspondent for NPR. This post is the first in an occasional series profiling the peninsula’s... Read more →

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the Landsat system, a group of satellites that offer scientists a continuous view of the earth. "The data from the satellites provide a permanent,... Read more →

As you may have noticed, a large NASA satellite is expected to crash into the earth sometime this week, but fortunately not in DC, according to the Post’s Joel Achenbach:  This just... Read more →