NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23... View Mission
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The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) was a University-Class Explorer (UNEX)... View Mission
The Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigations (CINDI), a mission to understand the dynamics of... View Mission
The Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Mission has been... View Mission
Clementine was jointly sponsored by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and NASA... View Mission
CloudSat uses advanced radar to "slice" through clouds to see their vertical structure,... View Mission
The Cluster II mission is an in-situ investigation of the Earth's magnetosphere using four... View Mission
The Cold Atom Laboratory makes use of the ISS's microgravity environment to study quantum... View Mission
CONTOUR's goals were to improve our knowledge of key characteristics of comet nuclei and to... View Mission
The goal of the COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) is to provide critical data and new... View Mission
COSI is a soft gamma-ray survey telescope designed to probe the origins of Galactic positrons,... View Mission
The Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) was launched into a geosynchronous... View Mission
Expected to launch in 2021, Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector (CUPID) has technology with a wide... View Mission
CubeSat secondary payload that will serve as a “space weather station” to measure particles and... View Mission
The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) will make frequent and accurate... View Mission
NASA's DART mission will be the first ever space mission to demonstrate asteroid deflection by a... View Mission
Dawn's goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of the solar system's earliest epoch... View Mission
The Deep Impact mission was selected as a Discovery mission in 1999. The spacecraft was... View Mission
The primary mission of Deep Space 1 was to test its payload of twelve advanced, high risk... View Mission
DISCOVER-AQ mission goals are to improve the interpretation of satellite observations used to... View Mission
Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander mission – part of NASA's New Frontiers Program – designed to... View Mission
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission is a multi-agency (NOAA, United States Air... View Mission
The Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS) was a single experiment shuttle payload designed to fly on... View Mission
The Dynamics Explorer (DE) mission's general objective was to investigate the strong... View Mission
Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) is an advanced land-imaging mission that will demonstrate new... View Mission
Future terrestrial biosphere changes are critically dependent on water availability and... View Mission
ELFIN will explore the mechanisms responsible for the loss of relativistic electrons from the... View Mission
EMIT will use NASA-invented imaging spectroscopy technology to measure the mineral composition... View Mission
Extrasolar Planet Observation and Deep Impact Extended Investigation EPOXI is a follow-on... View Mission