Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) observes particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar,... View Mission
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Fifty miles above the ground, Earth's highest clouds form an icy membrane at the edge of the... View Mission
Measures what happens when the Sun’s radiation hits our rocky moon, where there is no magnetic... View Mission
BARREL is a series of balloon campaigns designed to supplement measurements from NASA’s Van... View Mission
Compact Radiation Belt Explorer (CeREs) will help detect how electrons are energized and lost... View Mission
The Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigations (CINDI), a mission to understand the dynamics of... View Mission
The Cluster II mission is an in-situ investigation of the Earth's magnetosphere using four... View Mission
Expected to launch in 2018, 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
ELFIN will explore the mechanisms responsible for the loss of relativistic electrons from the... View Mission
EQUATOR-S was a low-cost mission designed to study the Earth's equatorial magnetosphere out to... View Mission
Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) is the second of the Small-Class Explorer (SMEX) missions... View Mission
The GEOTAIL mission is a collaborative project undertaken by the Institute of Space and... View Mission
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission of opportunity will fly an... View Mission
The Hinode (Solar-B) is a highly sophisticated observational satellite equipped with three... View Mission
IBEX is the first mission designed to map the entire region of the boundary of our Solar System... View Mission
ICON is a single spacecraft mission dedicated to understanding neutral-ion coupling in the Earth... View Mission
IMAGE studied the global response of the magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind. Major... View Mission
IMP-8 was instrumented for interplanetary, magnetotail, and magnetospheric boundary studies of... View Mission
Understanding the interface between the photosphere and corona remains a fundamental challenge... View Mission
The ISEE (International Sun-Earth Explorer) program was an international cooperative program... View Mission
MinXSS CubeSat will study the sun’s impact on Earth’s upper atmosphere by measuring soft X-rays... View Mission
MMS will investigate how the Sun's and Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect,... View Mission
Solar Probe+ will be an extraordinary and historic mission, exploring what is arguably the last... View Mission
The region over the poles of the Earth is one of the most important regions of space that is... View Mission
Researchers believe that much of the energy released during a flare is used to accelerate, to... View Mission
SAMPEX is the first of NASA's Small Explorer (SMEX) missions. SAMPEX was designed to study the... View Mission
The Space Environment Testbeds (SET) Project performs flight and ground investigations to... View Mission
The Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) is a small scientific spacecraft designed, built, and... View Mission
SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international cooperation between... View Mission
Solar Orbiter is a joint ESA-NASA collaboration that will address the central question of... View Mission