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Astrophysics Fleet Chart

Illustrated timeline of NASA’s Astrophysics Fleet from 1990 to 2025, showing space telescopes and missions in a spiral layout based on launch year. Icon colors indicate mission phase (e.g., operating, extended, formulation), and shapes denote mission type (e.g., smallsat, cubesat, balloon). Major missions like Hubble, Chandra, Webb, Roman, and Euclid are featured, along with Pioneers & Cubesats such as SPARCS and Pandora, and future traditional missions including LISA and ARIEL. The background shows a star-filled galaxy, with NASA and “Astrophysics Fleet” labeled at the top right.
Updated June 2025
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