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1.2 NASA Uncrewed Missions

NASA Uncrewed missions



Lunar missions

* Ranger

* Surveyor

* Lunar Orbiter

* Clementine

* Lunar Prospector

* Moon Mineralogy Mapper (NASA instrument for ISRO's Chandraayan-1 spacecraft)

* Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

* GRAIL (Planned for 2011)



Planetary missions



Mercury missions



* Mariner 10

* MESSENGER



Venus missions



* Mariner 2, 5 and 10

* Pioneer Venus (Pioneer 12 & Pioneer 13)

* Magellan



Mars missions



* Mariner 4, 6, 7 and 9

* Viking 1 and 2

* Mars Observer

* Mars Pathfinder

* Mars Climate Orbiter

* Mars Polar Lander

* Mars Global Surveyor

* 2001 Mars Odyssey

* Mars Exploration Rovers

* Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

* Phoenix Lander

* Mars Science Laboratory (Planned for 2011)

* MAVEN (Planned for 2013)

* Astrobiology Field Laboratory (Planned for 2016)

* Mars Scout 3 Mission (Planned for 2018)

* Mars Planetary Evolution and Meteorology Network (Planned for 2020)

* Mars Sample Return Mission (ESA partnership) (Planned for 2016-2024)



Jupiter missions



* Pioneer 10

* Pioneer 11

* Voyager 1

* Voyager 2

* Galileo

* New Horizons

* Juno (Planned for 2011)

* Europa Jupiter System Mission together with ESA (planned for 2020)



Saturn missions



* Pioneer 11

* Voyager 1

* Voyager 2

* Cassini-Huygens together with ESA

* Titan Saturn System Mission together with ESA (planned launch after 2020)



Uranus missions



* Voyager 2



Neptune missions



* Voyager 2



Pluto missions



* New Horizons



Multi-planet missions



* Pioneer 11 – Jupiter and Saturn

* Mariner 10 – Venus and Mercury

* Voyager 1 – Jupiter and Saturn

* Voyager 2 – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

* New Horizons – Jupiter, Pluto



Asteroidal/cometary missions



* NEAR Shoemaker

* Deep Space 1

* Stardust

* Deep Impact

* Dawn



Interplanetary missions



* Pioneer 6, 7, 8 and 9 – Solar wind, solar magnetic field and cosmic rays



Sun observing missions



* Solar Maximum Mission

* SOHO – ESA partnership

* Ulysses – ESA partnership

* STEREO

* Solar Dynamics Observatory (Planned for 2010)



Earth satellites



Earth Observing



* Explorer I

* Complete list of Earth Observing System (EOS) missions: http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/eos_homepage/mission_profiles/in...

* Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)

* Landsat http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/

* MODIS http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/

* MISR http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/

* Orbiting Carbon Observatory http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/

* SeaWiFS Ocean color http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/

* Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

* THEMIS

* TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics)



Space telescopes



Great Observatories program



* Hubble Space Telescope – ESA partnership

* Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

* Chandra X-ray Observatory

* Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF)



Proposed missions



* Glory (proposed)



Other



* Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)

* Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)

* Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)

* Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)

* Uhuru

* 1st High Energy Astrophysics Observatory (HEAO 1)

* Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2)

* James Webb Space Telescope – ESA partnership (Planned for 2013)



Canceled missions



Canceled planetary-asteroid missions



* Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (cancelled)

* JIMO (cancelled)

* CRAF (cancelled)

* Pluto Kuiper Express (cancelled; New Horizons is replacement)