ASCA (formerly named Astro-D) was Japan's fourth cosmic X-ray astronomy mission, and the second... View Mission
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The "Astro Observatory" was developed as a system of telescopes that could fly multiple times on... View Mission
The Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT) was flown on the space shuttle Columbia (STS-35) on... View Mission
The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory was the second of NASA's Great Observatories. Compton, at 17... View Mission
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23... View Mission
The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) was a University-Class Explorer (UNEX)... View Mission
The Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS) was a single experiment shuttle payload designed to fly on... View Mission
Euclid is an ESA-led Medium-class mission, part of ESA’s Cosmic Vision program, to map the... View Mission
The Extreme-Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) was a spinning spacecraft designed to rotate about the... View Mission
Launched in June 2008, Fermi, NASA's largest gamma-ray observatory, has opened a wide window on... View Mission
The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer FUSE was a NASA supported mission that launched June... View Mission
The Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS) did not pass its confirmation review in... View Mission
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Stanford University developed a sophisticated... View Mission
Launched on February 12, 1997 HALCA, also called VSOP, Muses-B or Haruka (meaning "far away"),... View Mission
The HaloSat mission will address the question: Is there a massive, extended, hot halo around the... View Mission
The prime objective of the HETE spacecraft was to carry out the first multiwavelength study of... View Mission
After the launch failure of the HETE-1 spacecraft, it was determined that gamma ray burst... View Mission
ESA's Hipparcos was the first space mission dedicated to measuring the positions, distances,... View Mission
ASTRO-H (formerly known as NeXT and renamed Hitomi) was launched on February 17, 2016 by the... View Mission
The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in... View Mission
Seven experiments made up the IEH-3 payload on the STS-95 Space Shuttle mission. The seven... View Mission
ESA's INTEGRAL is providing new insight into the most violent and exotic objects of the Universe... View Mission
ISO was an infrared space telescope designed and operated by ESA in cooperation with ISAS (part... View Mission
The IUE satellite was launched on January 26, 1978. It had an expected lifetime of 3 years,... View Mission
The International X-ray Observatory (IXO) was an X-ray astronomy mission with joint... View Mission
Take all the stars, all the planets and everything we can see and detect with telescopes and add... View Mission
For over twenty years, the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) was operated as the world's only... View Mission
The Keck Interferometer was a ground-based component of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program. At... View Mission