A List of all known NASA Space Science Missions

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[vannrox]

Space Science Missions

We have quite a few missions, some well-known and others not so well known. Many involve cooperation with international partners or other U.S. agencies. The links below will take you directly to the mission's home page; for full names and brief descriptions of these missions, click on the column headings (i.e., Under study, In development, Operating, or Past missions). We also have a page with some very preliminary mission concepts.

Under study ABE ARES AIM ASCE Constellation-X Dawn EUSO GEC Geospace GLAST JIMO Kepler LISA Mag Constellation Mag Multiscale Mars 2007+ MARVEL NetLander New Frontiers New Horizons (Pluto) NGSS NGST Phoenix SCIM SDO Sentinels SIM Solar Probe Space Tech 7 SPIDR THEMIS TPF preliminary concepts		In development AMS ASPERA-3 Astro-E2 CINDI Deep Impact GALEX Gravity Probe-B Herschel Hubble SM4 Mars '03 Rovers Mars '05 Orbiter Mars Express MESSENGER Planck Rosetta SIRTF SOFIA Solar-B Space Tech 5 Space Tech 6 STEREO Swift TWINS		Operating ACE Cassini Chandra CHIPS Cluster FAST FUSE Galileo Genesis Geotail HETE-2 Hubble (HST) IMAGE INTEGRAL MAP Mars Global Surv. Mars Odyssey Nozomi Polar RHESSI RXTE SAMPEX SOHO Stardust Starshine SWAS TIMED TRACE Ulysses Voyager Wind XMM-Newton Deep Space Network Space Science Data		Past missions Ended after 1989: ASCA Astro-1 / Astro-2 Astro-E BBXRT Clementine CGRO COBE CONTOUR CRRES DE-1 Deep Space 1 Deep Space 2 DXS Equator-S EUVE HALCA / VLBI Hipparcos Hubble SM3B Hubble (past) IEH-3 ISEE-3/ICE IMP-8 IRTS ISO IUE Kuiper (KAO) Leonid MAC Lunar Prospector Magellan Mars Clim. Orb. Mars Observer Mars Pathfinder Mars Polar Lander NEAR ORFEUS Pioneer 10/11 Pioneer Venus ROSAT SAC-B SNOE Spartan TERRIERS TSS-1, TSS-1R WIRE Yohkoh Older missions: JPL missions NSSDC database

You may also be interested in a summary of Space Science launches from 1993 through 2004, identifying both mission successes and failures, in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. Also online is a comprehensive history of Space Science from the 1940s to present, as well as an excellent reference to the various deep space spacecraft that have been launched by the U.S., Soviet Union/Russia, and other countries since the beginning of the space age.

Multi-Mission Programs

The following programs include multiple missions, many of which are linked above. You can see brief descriptions of these programs, along with links to them, here.

• Discovery Program
• Explorer Program
• International Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• Living With a Star
• Mars Exploration program at JPL
• New Frontiers
• New Millennium
• Project Prometheus / Nuclear Systems
• Scientific Balloons
• Solar-Terrestrial Probes
• Sounding Rockets

Ground-Based Astronomy

Most of our research activities are carried out using spacecraft (earth-orbiting or interplanetary) or suborbital vehicles (sounding rockets, balloons, and high-altitude aircraft). The National Science Foundation is the government agency that is responsible for most U.S. ground-based astronomical research. However, we do support a few ground-based activities, including:

• the search for planets outside of our solar system
• NASA's share of observing time on the Keck telescopes
• development (and eventual use of) the Keck Interferometer
• development (and eventual use of) an interferometer for the Large Binocular Telescope
• the Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea
• the 2 Micron All-Sky Survey
• solar observations at Mt. Wilson, including the 60-foot and 150-foot tower telescopes
• Near-Earth object detection, tracking, and characterization, including
  • the University of Arizona Spacewatch program
  • Near Earth Asteroid Tracking, a team led by JPL
  • Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search

Non-Space Science missions

• Earth Science missions
• Space Shuttle, Space Station, and prior human space missions (Gemini, Apollo, etc.)

[vannrox]

I found this an excellent resource.

[Constitution Day]

PING! Are you still out there?

[Constitution Day]

Very interesting!

Thanks for posting this; I'll check it out later.

[Constitution Day]

Oops! Post 3 was for you.

[wanderin]

Your right, this is a great listing of all the NASA missions for reference.

Stardust is one mission I keep tabs on personally. When I purchased my first computer, I looked up NASA. I found the Stardust mission and discovered the chips while reading about Stardust.

The chips have peoples names on them. One set will travel on thru space after separation, the other matching set will return to earth ( Jan. 15, 2006) with the collectors and be on display in the Space Museum. People will be able to look up names on them in the display. I am not sure if this will be an online feature.

I entered my own and immediate family members names on them just shortly before they closed the list.

I happily put my deceased paternal grandfathers name on the list also. He went to his grave believing man walking on the moon was a gov. hoax, used to get more tax money from the tax payers. I still miss him and his wisdoms.