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NASA
Louisiana Students Loft Payloads from NASA Balloon Facility in Texas
Every spring in Palestine, Texas, the wide-open fields around NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility fill with students and faculty from across Louisiana. They arrive carrying sensors, laptops, and carefully engineered payloads they have spent months preparing. The goal is to send their experiments to the edge of space and return with meaningful data, while reflecting NASA’s long-standing commitment to develop future scientists…
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Volunteer Measures Record Louisiana Rainfall
“I didn’t sign up to try to measure a new record or anything”, said Matt Carnicle, a volunteer for the NASA-sponsored Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS, project. Carnicle measured a whopping 29.06 inches of rainfall on June 18th, 2026, breaking an all-time 24-hour record for the state of Louisiana of 22.00 inches. “I’m just a regular…
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U.S.-India NISAR Satellite Images Mississippi River Delta Region
Description The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth-observing satellite’s L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument captured this image of the Mississippi River Delta region in southeastern Louisiana on Nov. 29, 2025. The colors in the image represent varying types of cover, which tend to reflect microwaves from the radar differently. Portions of New Orleans appear green, a sign that the…
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Louisiana Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station
As part of the state’s first Earth-to-space call, students from Louisiana will have an opportunity soon to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Woody Hoburg will answer prerecorded questions from Lake Charles-area students through the Louisiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Advisory Council’s NASA ASTRO CAMP. The Lake Charles area was affected…
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Louisiana Students to Hear from NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station
As part of the state’s first Earth-to-space call, students from Louisiana will have an opportunity soon to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Woody Hoburg will answer prerecorded questions from Lake Charles-area students through the Louisiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Advisory Council’s NASA ASTRO CAMP. The Lake Charles area was affected…
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Press Releases
Envoc’s Digital Driver’s License App, LA Wallet onboards Over 1 Million Citizens
Over one million residents have now loaded their driver’s license into LA Wallet, Louisiana’s official and legal digital driver’s license app created by Envoc in collaboration with the Louisiana Governor, the legislature, the Office of Motor Vehicles, and numerous state departments. “The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how beneficial LA Wallet’s no-touch approach to displaying and sharing identity information and COVID-19 vaccination status has…
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Press Releases
Amazon Announces First Fulfillment Center in Louisiana
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 22, 2020– Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced plans to open its first fulfillment center in the state of Louisiana in Carencro. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201222005551/en/ Amazon’s new one million square-foot site in Carencro, Louisiana (Photo: Business Wire) The new fulfillment center, which is anticipated to launch in 2021, will create over 500 new, full-time jobs with…
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