Nasa Projects

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Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

Hubble Space Telescope

Microwave Anisotropy Probe, studying the Big Bang and the structure of galaxies

ROSAT (turned off February 1999)

Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer

Space Science

Space Infrared Telescope Facility

ICESat

TOPEX/POSEIDON, U.S – French mission to study ocean topography and circulation (includes information on El Niño)

The Space Calendar

NASA Human Spaceflight Web, including the Space Shuttle and International Space Station

Cassini

Genesis, a mission to collect particles ejected from the Sun

MESSENGER, a scientific investigation of the planet Mercury

Near – Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), the first spacefraft to orbit an asteroid

Stardust – NASA’s mission to return a sample from a comet to Earth

Galileo

SOHO

Yohkoh

Termosphere-Ionosphere-Mesophere Energetics & Dynamics (TIMED) Explorer

Robotics Education

Mars Missions, including:

1 – Mars Global Surveyor

2 – Mars Surveyor ’98, including the Mars Polar Lander (lost December 1999)
and Mars Climate Orbiter (lost September 1999)

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