Astronomy

Satellites and Spacecraft

Information on a number of spacecraft can be found on the WWW:

General
- Geostationary Orbits
- How Satellites Work
NASA Missions
- Discovery Program
  - Lunar Prospector
  - Mars Pathfinder
  - Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
  - Stardust, comet sample return mission
- Explorer Program
  - MIDEX - Medium-class Explorer missions
    - ACE - Advanced Composition Explorer
    - FUSE - Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
    - IMAGE - Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration
    - MAP - Microwave Anisotropy Probe
    - RXTE - Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
  - SMEX - Small Explorer missions
    - FAST - Fast Auroral SnapshoT Explorer
    - SAMPEX - Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer
    - SWAS - Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
    - TRACE - Transition Region And Coronal Explorer
    - WIRE - Wide-Field Infrared Explorer
  - UNEX - University-class Explorer missions
    - STEDI - Student Explorer Demonstration Initiative
      - CATSAT - Cooperative Astrophysics and Technology Satellite
      - SNOE - Student Nitric Oxide Explorer
      - TERRIERS - Tomographic Experiment using Radiative Recombinative Ionospheric EUV and Radio Sources
- New Millenium Program
  - Deep Space 1
  - Mars Microprobe Project (Deep Space 2)
  - New Millennium Interferometer (Deep Space 3)
  - Champollion (Deep Space 4)
  - Earth Orbiter 1
  - SPARCLE - SPAce Readiness Coherent Lidar Experiment (Earth Orbiter 2)
ASCA - Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
AXAF - Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
BeppoSAX - Satellite per Astronomia X "Beppo", an Italian/Dutch X-ray satellite
Cassini mission to Saturn
Cluster II, a satellite for 3-d mapping of Earth's magnetosphere
CGRO - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
Clementine, a lunar mapping mission
COBE - COsmic Background Explorer
Copernicus, a UV spectroscopy mission in the late 1970's
CRRES - Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite
Education
- CSLP - Cooperative Satellite Learning Project
Einstein, an older X-ray satellite
EUVE - Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
ExNPS - Exploration of Nearby Planetary Systems
EXOSAT, European X-ray Observatory
FIRST - Far InfraRed and Submillimetre Telescope
Galileo mission to Jupiter
- Online from Jupiter
GEOTAIL, a satellite for magnetospheric studies
GPS - Global Positioning System
Gravity Probe B, an experiment in general relativity
GRISP - Gamma Ray Astronomy Satellite Experiment NATALYA-II
Hipparcos, astrometry satellite
HST - Hubble Space Telescope
- HDF - Hubble Deep Field
- Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale
- STScI - Space Telescope Science Institute
HUT - Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
Huygens, a probe to explore Titan (see Cassini)
INTEGRAL - International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
IRAS - InfraRed Astronomical Satellite
ISO - Infrared Space Observatory
IUE - International Ultraviolet Explorer
IXAE - Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment
Magellan, a Venus mapping mission
Mars Global Surveyor, a Mars mapping mission
NGST - Next Generation Space Telescope
ORFEUS - Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometers
ROSAT, a current X-ray observatory
Rosetta, ESA's Rendezvous Mission with a Comet
RXTE - Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer
SOHO - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
Satellite data from the SSEC (Space Science and Engineering Center)
SIM - Space Interferometry Mission
SIR-C - Space Imaging Radar
SIRTF - Space InfraRed Telescope Facility
Space VLBI, radio interferometry (comprising VSOP & RadioAstron)
SXG - Spectrum-X-Gamma
UIT - Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
Ulysses, to explore the high-latitude heliosphere
Voyager, a pair of solar system explorers
WUPPE - Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment
XMM - High-Throughput X-Ray Spectroscopy Mission
Yohkoh solar imager

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Last modified: Mon May 4 19:14:23 PDT 1998