Karin Hauck / Wednesday, January 17, 2018 / Categories: Launch Recent media articles featuring ICON and GOLD ICON and GOLD missions will study Earth's little-understood upper atmosphere. Here are some recent science and technology articles that have featured both missions, as the GOLD launch approaches in late January and ICON later this year: For the first time, a NASA mission to study space weather will live on a commercial satellite in The Verge (technology news). This article quotes ICON principal investigator Thomas Immel. NASA launches a mission to study Earth’s final frontier—the edge of space in Ars Technica (technology and science news) New NASA mission will explore key zone between Earth and space at CNN (headline news) Looking ahead: space missions for 2018 at Sky and Telescope (astronomy news) Print 2468