NOTICE: Because this page had grown so large (~168K), I have split it into 14 pages. Some direct, named links will no longer work. If you are looking for information about a particular mission, please select the appropriate file from the following alphabetical listing. If you cannot find information on the mission you are looking for, you may find some information in the "Pages with Information on Many Missions" section listed below.
General Information
A-B | C-D | E-F |
G-H | I-J | K-L |
M-N | O-P | Q-R |
S-T | U-V | W-X |
Y-Z
UARS -- MLS
UARS -- HALOE
Launched August 16, 1984, ended January 16, 1985. One of the three spacecraft in the AMPTE Mission.
See University Explorers Project (UNEX) page.
Launched in October 1990.
The Vela series of satellites (Vela-5A, 5B, 6A, 6B). Launched by the U.S. Air Force primarily for the detection of nuclear explosions, but capable of celestial X-ray observations.
The first ESSP mission, planned for launch in the spring of 2000 on a Pegasus launch vehicle.
1983-4.
There are two Viking missions, a NASA mission to Mars and a Swedish mission to study the Earth's aurora.
Selected for further study under the Discovery Program leading to a fall 1995 downselect for development and flight. See Discovery for more information.
See VMM.
VSOP was renamed HALCA after its successful launch on February 12, 1997 on the new ISAS M-V rocket from the Kagoshima Space Center. See also MUSES-B.
Created September 19, 1996. Last update: May 7, 1997 (minor updates as recent as July 17, 2000). Due to changing job assignments, I no longer actively maintain this page, and no one has taken over. I will continue to correct problems on a best effort basis.
Please see my Disclaimer and Web Policy page. Maintained by Gordon Johnston:
Gordon.Johnston@hq.nasa.govThe world wide web uniform resource locator (URL) for this page is:
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