posted on May, 22 2020 @ 09:41 AM
SpaceX is amateur hour compare to NASAS FORMER GLORY...
Here’s a nasa short list...I’m not even going to include the 135 shuttle missions...or the ancillary/supplemental launches
Suborbital[edit]
Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) – five consecutive launches, 80 seconds apart on March 27, 2012, studied the high-altitude jet stream
.[19][20]
NASA Sounding Rocket Program
Earth satellites[edit]
Main category: NASA satellites orbiting Earth
Biosatellite 1, 2 and 3
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
- Earth Observing System[21]
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) – National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)[22]
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)
Echo 1 and 2
- Great Observatories
Chandra X-ray Observatory
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
Hubble Space Telescope – ESA partnership
Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF)
- High Energy Astronomy Observatory program
High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 (HEAO 1)
Einstein Observatory (HEAO 2) first fully imaging X-ray telescope
High Energy Astronomy Observatory 3 (HEAO 3)
Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE)
Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
Jason-1[23]
OSTM/Jason-2[24]
Jason-3[25]
Landsat program[26]
Landsat 1
Landsat 2
Landsat 3
Landsat 4
Landsat 5
Landsat 6
Landsat 7
Landsat Data Continuity Mission
- Living With a Star
Van Allen Probes – Twin probes studying the Van Allen radiation belt [27][28]
Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR)
- New Millennium Program (NMP)
Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)
Space Technology 5 (ST5)
Space Technology 6 (ST6)
NanoSail-D and NanoSail-D2
Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)
- Origins program
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)
Kepler searching for Earth-sized exoplanets in the habitable zone
Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS)
- Small Explorer program (SMEX)[29]
Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM)
Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST)
Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)
Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) – X-ray telescope orbiting Earth[30][31]
Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) – Sun observing, Earth satellite
Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX)
Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS)
Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) – Sun observing, Earth satellite
Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE)
- Solar Terrestrial Probes program
Hinode (Solar-B)
Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED)
Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS)
Uhuru
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
Lunar[edit]
See also: Exploration of the Moon
Clementine
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) [32]
-Lunar Orbiter program
Lunar Orbiter 1
Lunar Orbiter 2
Lunar Orbiter 3
Lunar Orbiter 4
Lunar Orbiter 5
- Lunar Precursor Robotic Program (LPRP)
Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
Lunar Prospector
Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) – instrument for ISRO's Chandraayan-1
-Pioneer program
Pioneer 0
Pioneer 1
Pioneer 2
Pioneer P-1
Pioneer P-3
Pioneer P-30
Pioneer P-31
Pioneer 3
Pioneer 4
- Ranger program
Ranger 1
Ranger 2
Ranger 3
Ranger 4
Ranger 5
Ranger 6
Ranger 7
Ranger 8
Ranger 9
- Surveyor program
Surveyor 1
Surveyor 2
Surveyor 3
Surveyor 4
Surveyor 5
Surveyor 6
Surveyor 7
Martian[edit]
See also: Exploration of Mars
- Mariner program
Mariner 4
Mariner 6 and 7
Mariner 8
Mariner 9
- Mars Exploration Rovers
Spirit rover
Opportunity rover
Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Odyssey
- Mars Pathfinder
Sojourner rover
- Mars Polar Lander
Deep Space 2 (DS2) – (sub-surface probes)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Curiosity rover
- Mars Scout program
Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN)
Phoenix
- Viking program
Viking 1
Viking 2
Asteroidal/cometary[edit]
- Discovery Program
Deep Impact (primary) – EPOXI (extended)
- New Millennium Program (NMP)
Deep Space 1 (DS1) – first spacecraft propelled by an Ion thruster
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker) – close study of 433 Eros
- New Frontiers program
Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) – launched September 2016[33][34]
Stardust – follow-up for Deep Impact's primary mission to 9P/Tempel
Other planets[edit]
Cassini–Huygens – Saturn and its moons
Dawn – Vesta in 2011-2012, and Ceres in 2015-2018
Galileo – Jupiter and its moons
Juno – Jupiter
Magellan (Venus Radar Mapper)
- Mariner program – Venus
Mariner 1
Mariner 2
Mariner 5
Mariner 10 – first to Mercury
MESSENGER – first to orbit Mercury
- New Frontiers program
Juno Spacecraft Mission – Jupiter-bound for polar orbit in 2016[35]
New Horizons – Pluto and its moons in 2015
- Pioneer program
Pioneer 5 – interplanetary space between Earth and Venus
Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9 – Solar wind, solar magnetic field and cosmic rays
Pioneer 10 – first to the asteroid belt and Jupiter
Pioneer 11 – asteroid belt and Jupiter, first to Saturn
Pioneer Venus project
- Voyager program
Voyager 1 – Jupiter, Saturn
Voyager 2 – Jupiter, Saturn, first to Uranus and Neptune
Solar[edit]
Genesis – returned sample of solar wind
- Living With a Star
Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) – two campaigns of 20 balloons each, studying the Van Allen radiation belts, 2012 to
2014[36] This mission is complement to the Van Allen Probes (RBSP).[37]
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) – ESA partnership
Solar Maximum Mission (SolarMax)
- Solar Terrestrial Probes program
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) – launch readiness date was October 2014,[38] launched on 13 March 2015 at 02:44 UTC.[39]
Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
Ulysses (spacecraft) – ESA partnership
Parker Solar Probe – the first mission into the Sun's corona, successfully launched on 12 August 2018.[40][41]
Planned missions[edit]
- Origins Program
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – ESA partnership – launch scheduled for 2021[42][43]
Europa Clipper; launch ~2023
- New Frontiers program
Dragonfly (spacecraft); launch ~2026
Cancelled or undeveloped missions[edit]
Main article: List of NASA cancellations
Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF)
Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO)
Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher (MAX-C)
Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO)
- Origins program
Space Interferometry Mission (SIM)
Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)
Pluto Kuiper Express (PLUTOKE) – replaced by New Horizons
Old proposals[edit]
- Mars Scout program
Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey (ARES) (2000-10 concept)
TAU (spacecraft)- probe to 1000 AU (1980s concept)