Featured Missions
Our mission milestones showcase the breadth and depth of NASA science.
Lunar Trailblazer
Launching in 2024, the goal of Lunar Trailblazer is to understand the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the Moon, and the lunar water cycle.
NISAR
Launching in 2024, NISAR will systematically map Earth and study changes to ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice in fine detail, as climate change warms the air and ocean.
GeoXO
GeoXO will advance observations of Earth’s weather, atmosphere and ocean for short-term forecasts and warnings and long-term planning for the effects of our changing planet.
Why Does NASA Want to Explore Jupiter’s Ocean Moon?
Everywhere there’s water on Earth, there’s life. Does that hold true elsewhere in our solar system? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will investigate Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, which — with its subsurface ocean — is one of the most promising places in our solar system to find environments capable of supporting life.
Learn More about Europa ClipperNASA 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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ACRIMSAT
Earth Orbiter
Aqua
Earth Orbiter
Aquarius
Eyes on Aquarius The joint U.S./Argentinian Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC)-D mission was launched June 10, 2011, and ended on…
ATS
Applications Technology Satellite Program The Applications Technology Satellite (ATS) series was conceived of as a follow-on to the successful experimental…
Aura
Earth Orbiter
CALIPSO
Earth Orbiter
Cloudsat
Earth Orbiter
CYGNSS
Multiple Microsatellites
ELFIN
The Electron Losses and Fields Investigation, or ELFIN, studies one of the processes that allows energetic electrons to escape the…
ERBS
NASA’s Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) was designed to investigate how energy from the Sun is absorbed and re-radiated by…
ESSA
The ESSA Program The Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) Satellite Program was initiated as an extension of, and a compliment…
Geosat
The U.S. Navy GEOdetic SATellite, GEOSAT, was launched on 12 March 1985, into an 800-km, 108-deg inclination orbit, carried an…
GPM
Earth Orbiter
GRACE
Multi-Spacecraft Orbiter
ICESat-2
Earth Orbiter
ICON
The Ionospheric Connection Explorer studied the frontier of space: the dynamic zone high in our atmosphere where Earth weather and…
JPSS
The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is the nation’s advanced series of polar-orbiting environmental satellites.
