Featured Missions
Upcoming mission milestones showcase the breadth and depth of NASA science.
James Webb Space Telescope
Webb is celebrating one year of incredible discoveries, from exoplanets to the early Universe.
OSIRIS-REx
OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to collect samples from an asteroid. It returned the samples to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, kicking off an exciting autumn of asteroid milestones!
Parker Solar Probe
Parker just completed its 16th orbit, moving ever closer to the surface of the Sun. Celebrate this mission and others with the Heliophysics Big Year, beginning in October 2023.
NASA Science Fleet Chart
NASA Science missions circle the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, Mars, and many other destinations within our Solar System, including spacecraft that look out even further into our universe. The Science Fleet depicts the scope of NASA’s activity and how our missions have permeated throughout the solar system.
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3D Tissue Chips
Developing tissue chips that can be used for modeling of acute and/or chronic exposures for 6 months or longer 3D…
ACE
NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) collects and analyzes particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar and galactic origins. The data contributes to…
Advanced Plant Habitat
Conducting plant bioscience research aboard the International Space Station The Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) is the largest, fully automated plant…
Akatsuki
Launch Date May 21, 2010 Launch Site Tanegashima Space Center, Tanegashima, Japan Destination Venus Type Orbiter Status Successful–In Progress Nation…
Aqua
Earth Orbiter
ARTEMIS (THEMIS)
Note: This page refers to the twin robotic spacecraft currently studying the Moon. For details on NASA’s new Artemis mission…
Aura
Earth Orbiter
AWE
The Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) is attached to the exterior of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. From its space station…
BepiColombo
What is BepiColombo? BepiColombo is an international mission comprised of two spacecraft riding together to Mercury to orbit and to…
BioExpt-01
Biological Experiment-01 on Artemis I Studying how life responds to conditions beyond low Earth orbit BioExperiment-01 (BioExpt-01) will serve as…
CALIPSO
Earth Orbiter
Chandra
Space Telescope
Cloudsat
Earth Orbiter
Cluster-II
Cluster II is a space mission sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), along with NASA participation focused primarily on…
CYGNSS
Multiple Microsatellites
DSCOVR
DSCOVR is a space weather station that monitors the solar wind, provides space weather alerts and images.
E-TBEx: Enhanced Tandem Beacon Experiment
NASA’s Enhanced Tandem Beacon Experiment, or E-TBEx, mission explores bubbles in the electrically-charged layers of Earth’s upper atmosphere, which can…
ExoMars Program
The ExoMars Trace Gas orbiter scans methane and other trace gases in Mars' atmosphere. Schiaparelli was a lander test.
Fermi
Overview Fermi observes light with energies thousands to hundreds of billions of times greater than what our eyes can detect.…
Gaia
What is Gaia? Gaia, the Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics, is a European Space Agency astronomical observatory mission. Its goal…
GOES Satellite Network
The first satellite in the series, GOES-R, now known as GOES-16, was launched in 2016 and is currently operational as…
GPM
Earth Orbiter
Hayabusa2
Japan's Hayabusa 2 collected samples from asteroid Ryugu for return to Earth.
Hubble Space Telescope
Since its 1990 launch, the Hubble Space Telescope has changed our fundamental understanding of the universe.
IBEX
What is Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)? Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a NASA spacecraft mapping the boundary of our solar…
ICESat-2
Earth Orbiter
James Webb Space Telescope
Space Telescope
JUICE
Goals JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) will explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons in depth. Launch April 14,…
Juno
Jupiter Orbiter