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AWE Mission

The Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) is planned to launch in December 2023, attached to the... View Mission

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The Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Mission has been... View Mission

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COSI is a soft gamma-ray survey telescope designed to probe the origins of Galactic positrons,... View Mission

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Expected to launch in 2021, Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector (CUPID) has technology with a wide... View Mission

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CubeSat secondary payload that will serve as a “space weather station” to measure particles and... View Mission

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Artist concept of DAVINCI instrument in orbit
DAVINCI+ will measure the composition of Venus’ atmosphere to understand how it formed and evolved,
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Illustration of Dragonfly mission spacecraft

Dragonfly is a rotorcraft lander mission – part of NASA's New Frontiers Program – designed to... View Mission

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Euclid

Euclid is an ESA-led Medium-class mission, part of ESA’s Cosmic Vision program, to map the... View Mission

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Europa might be the best place to look for environments where life could exist in the present... View Mission

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Illustration of a spacecraft with a yellow and green image of the sun in the background; the text reads EUVST: extreme ultraviolet high-throughput spectroscopic telescope

Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon Mission will expand how NASA... View Mission

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Artist concept of spacecraft scanning the green surface of the sun; text reads EZIE: Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer

The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer will explore the Sun and the system that drives space... View Mission

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Square image with a bright pink lines similar to a snowflake patter and the title FLARE above

To develop a methodology to correlate material flammability limits in normal gravity and... View Mission

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GeoCarb Mission

The Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory, a first-of-its-kind space Earth science mission,... View Mission

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GLIMR Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer

GLIMR is a space-based instrument that will help scientists observe and monitor ocean biology,... View Mission

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Image of 9 illustrated satellites against a blue atmospheric background with the title HelioSwarm and subtitle The Nature of Turbulence in Space Plasm

HelioSwarm mission will help improve our understanding of the dynamics of the Sun, the Sun-Earth... View Mission

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HERMES spacecraft

HERMES investigates the causes of space-weather variability as driven by the Sun and modulated... View Mission

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The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission will help researchers better... View Mission

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Illustration of JPSS satellite in orbit over earth

JPSS-2 will make afternoon weather and climate measurements as it orbits Earth, a shared ground... View Mission

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Illustration of Juice mission spacecraft

NASA is collaborating with the European Space Agency (ESA) on this ESA-led mission to Ganymede... View Mission

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Libera instrument orbiting with earth in the background

Libera will record the radiation balance, essential to understanding climate warming and cooling... View Mission

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LISA

A new ESA LISA mission was selected in 2017 for ESA's L3 launch opportunity. LISA is a space-... View Mission

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Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper will map hydrogen within craters and other permanently shadowed... View Mission

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Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA)
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Image of a spacecraft with an illustrated yellow to orange gradient sun in the background; the text reads Muse Observing the Sun's Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation

The Multi-slit Solar Explorer mission will help scientists understand the forces driving... View Mission

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NISAR spacecraft in orbit over the earth

The proposed NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Mission, a collaboration between the... View Mission

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The advanced Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) tracks the health of the ozone layer and... View Mission

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The Pre-Aerosol, Clouds, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission will make global ocean color... View Mission

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PREFIRE

Revealing new aspects of the Arctic climate by measuring the full spectrum of polar radiant... View Mission

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Psyche is both the name of an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter — and the name... View Mission

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Q-PACE will explore properties of particle collision in a microgravity environment in an effort... View Mission

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Image of the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope

This mission will study dark energy, measure the history of cosmic acceleration, search for... View Mission

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Sentinel 6B

Sentinel-6B will provide ongoing measurements of global sea level rise – one of the most... View Mission