NASA Mission Information
The Space Science Data Operations Office (SSDOO) of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
does not only offer NASA mission data but also information about the projects, spacecraft
and instruments that collect these data. Selected missions of the past, present and future
in the areas of Astrophysics, Planetary Sciences
and Space Plasma and Solar Physics are listed below:
Astrophysics
Planetary Science
- Apollo - NASA
manned lunar missions (1967-1972)
- Cassini - NASA/European
Space Agency Mission to Saturn (1997-present)
- Deep Space 2 -
NASA probe to penetrate Mars near the south pole to test for ice and to determine the
thermal and physical properties (1999)
- Galileo - NASA Mission
to Jupiter (1989-present)
- Lunar Prospector -
NASA Global Orbiter Mission to the Moon (1997-present)
- Magellan - NASA Venus
Radar Mapping Mission (1989-1994)
- Mars Climate
Orbiter - NASA's Mars Surveyor '98 program to study the Martian weather, climate, and
water and carbon dioxide budget (1998-present)
- Mars Global Surveyor -
NASA Global Orbiter Mission to Mars (1996-present)
- Mars Pathfinder - NASA
Environmental Survey Mission to Mars (1996-present)
- Mars Polar Lander
- NASA's Mars Surveyor '98 program to study the Martian weather, climate, and water and
carbon dioxide budget (1999)
- NEAR - NASA Rendezvous
Mission to Near-Earth Asteroid (1996-present)
- Viking - NASA
Orbiters/Landers to Mars (1975-1982)
- Voyager - NASA Missions
to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and beyond (1977-present)
- Complete List of Planetary
missions
Space Plasma and Solar Physics
- IMAGE - NASA MIDEX mission to study the global
response of the magnetosphere to the changes in the solar wind (2000)
- IMP-8 - NASA Explorer mission
to study the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere (1973-present)
- ISEE - NASA Explorer missions
to study the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere (1977-1997)
- ISTP - International
Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program with multiple spacecraft (1992-present)
- Pioneer 10/11 -
NASA mission to study Jupiter, Saturn, the interplanetary medium, and beyond (1972-1996)
- SOHO - Joint NASA/ESA ISTP
mission to study the sun and solar wind (1995-present)
- Solar Maximum
Mission - NASA mission to study the sun (1980-1989)
- Voyager - NASA mission
to study the gas giant planets, the interplanetary medium, and beyond (1977-present)
- Yohkoh - Joint
ISAS/NASA mission to study the sun (1991-present)
- Complete list of Space Plasma and
Solar Physics flight projects
For further information, users may do a query of Spacecraft Name,
Discipline, Launch Date or any combination of the three.
If you have any questions about a particular mission which is not listed above, please
send them to Dr. James Thieman (thieman@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov).
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Last Updated: 8 January 1999, CYN