NASA
Instrument and Sensing Technology
Space Mission Acronym List and Hyperlink Guide
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
Here are links to information on a variety of space missions and
instruments. This page is under continuous improvement, and
subject to change and restructuring.
This is by no means a complete list of space missions, and represents the bias towards
robotic science missions imposed by my job assignment.
With as few exceptions (typically
technology demonstration missions such as ACTS),
I have not
included communications satellites (see also the
NASA
Experimental Communications Satellites page from the
Space Electronics
Division at LeRC). In addition,
I have not attempted to keep the
information about payloads on the Space Shuttle complete
or up to date. Excellent information is available through the initial sources listed under
Space Shuttle.
In some cases two different uniform resource locators (URLs)
appear to point to the same information. In these cases I have left the multiple paths,
in case one is being phased out or is not working.
I don't have the time or tools to scan regularly for dead links,
and mission plans change almost as fast as the web.
Please send any dead links, corrections, or suggested additions
to Gordon
Johnston.
Note: This page is under construction. In some cases I have included links to
press releases, etc., that are out-of-date. As I have time I will cull this list
to preserve what I find to be the most useful links.
Pages with Information on Many Missions
Not listed in any particular order.
- NSSDC Master Catalog Spacecraft Query Form
- From the NASA History Office:
- Office
of Space Science 1995 Flight Project Data Book. I've not had time
(and probably will not ever have time) to add
links to this document from all the mission sections below, but it has some
good descriptions.
- There are a lot of mission descriptions in the
Mission Requirements and Data
Systems Support Forecast (501-803) from the
Mission Management
Office (Code 501) of the
Mission Operations and Data
Systems Directorate (MO&DSD, Code 500) at NASA
GSFC.
- Spacecraft Missions (not working last time I checked)
from the Center for Space Research
(not working last time I checked, but apparently still valid, see
Center for Space Research)
at the University of Texas at Austin.
- The Small
Satellites Home Page from the Department
of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the
University of Surrey.
- Planetary Missions
from NSSDC.
- Mission Keyword: Mission Name from
the Planetary Data System.
- The Magnetospheric
Yellow Pages Project Pages from the
Space Physics
Data System.
- Unmanned Spacecraft and
Satellites Links from the
Space Electronics Division at NASA
LeRC.
- Quicklook Index
Sorted alphabetically by name from
Mike's Spacecraft
Library from JPL.
- Spacecraft
Design and Spacecraft Systems from the
Department of Aerospace Engineering at
USC.
- The Space
Calendar from JPL.
- NASA
Astrophysics Missions (mostly in Word format) from the
Astrophysics
Division at NASA Headquarters.
- Earth Remote
Sensing Spacecraft.
- A lot of information on
major NASA projects and
initiatives is available from NASA Spacelink.
I have not had time
to incorporate this information into my page.
- The
WWW
Virtual Library: Astronomy and Astrophysics: Observatories: Space
- The Solar
System, compiled by Ken Edgett, Arizona State University contains a figure on U.S.
Planetary Spacecraft from 1962 to 2004, as well as a page on spacecraft
(including hyperlinks) that have toured
the solar system, organized by target body.
- Science
Missions from the European
Space Agency (ESA)
- Earth
Observation Missions from the European
Space Agency (ESA)
- Missions with
High-Energy Astrophysics Instrumentation
- NASA/Marshall Space Flight
Projects
- JPL Public image archive.
A lot of the miscellaneous stuff that used to be on this page is from the
ftp://jplinfo.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/ site.
The information is now available in a much more organized form from the
JPL image/information archives.
In order to shorten this page and make it more useful, and because JPL changed the
file structure so the old links I had were out of date, I've eliminated these links,
unless they were the only source of information I had on the mission.
- Space Research Institute
(IKI) is the leading organization of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
in the field of investigations of
Outer Space, Solar System planets and other objects of the Universe.
- A
History
of Space Exploration from the
Computer Research and Applications
server at LANL.
- Institute for Space
Research - University of Calgary.
This group, which is part of the Department of Physics & Astronomy,
has been doing ground-based and space-born measurements of the
aurora and upper atmosphere for over 25 years. Projects currently
being investigated at the University of Calgary's Institute for
Space Research (ISR) include the analysis of image and particle
data obtained from a variety of sources.
- Amateur
Satellite
Summary from
AMSAT.
GROUND-BASED MISSIONS
I found so many links I created a separate page.
NASA's High Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS) was terminated by Congress due to
budget pressures in October 1993. See "SETI" and the SETI Institute Home Page
(listed below) for more information.
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Created July 18, 1994. Last update: June 24, 1997. Please see my
Disclaimer
and Web Policy page. Maintained by
Gordon Johnston.
Gordon.Johnston@hq.nasa.gov
The world wide web
uniform resource locator (URL) for this page is:
http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/Sensors_page/MissionLinks.html