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NASA Science Missions
For over twenty years, the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) was operated as the world's only... View Mission
The Keck Interferometer was a ground-based component of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program. At... View Mission
The Kepler Mission, a NASA Discovery mission, was designed to survey a region of the Milky Way... View Mission
The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) is part of NASA's overall effort to image... View Mission
In November of 1998 and 1999, Earth crossed the fresh ejecta of comet Tempel -Tuttle, resulting... View Mission
A new ESA LISA mission was selected in 2017 for ESA's L3 launch opportunity. LISA is a space-... View Mission
The Space Technology 7 (ST-7) Disturbance Reduction System (DRS) is flying aboard the European... View Mission
The Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer Mission... View Mission
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is an Explorer mission that allows astronomers to... View Mission
The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) was a series of four satellites launched by NASA... View Mission
The ORFEUS-SPAS II mission followed the ORFEUS-SPAS I mission flown in 1993, motivated by... View Mission
The ESA-led Planck mission, formerly called COBRAS/SAMBA and renamed in honor of the German... View Mission
This mission will study dark energy, measure the history of cosmic acceleration, search for... View Mission
ROSAT, the ROentgen SATellite, was an X-ray observatory developed through a cooperative program... View Mission
Over the course of its 16 year mission, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)... View Mission
SAC-B was an international cooperative project between NASA and Argentina's National Commission... View Mission
SIM/SIM-Lite was not recommended for development this decade by the Astro2010 Decadal Survey. As... View Mission
SOFIA is the largest airborne observatory in the world, and makes observations that are... View Mission
The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) was launched... View Mission
Suzaku, formerly known as Astro-E2 or NeXT, is Japan's fifth X-ray astronomy mission, and was... View Mission
The Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) was launched from a Pegasus-XL vehicle into... View Mission
Swift is a first-of-its-kind multi-wavelength observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray... View Mission
The primary mission objective for TESS is to survey nearby bright stars near the earth for... View Mission
The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) was a mission concept previously under study by NASA. It... View Mission
The James Webb Space Telescope is an infrared-optimized space telescope with a large mirror, 6.5... View Mission
The Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) was a small satellite carrying a cryogenically cooled... View Mission
The WMAP mission addressed fundamental questions in cosmology: What is the geometry of the... View Mission
XMM-Newton, the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission, is the second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000... View Mission
XRiSM will investigate celestial X-ray objects in the Universe with high-throughput imaging and... View Mission