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An infrared space telescope designed to help advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts .
Launch date: September 2027
The Farside Seismic Suite will send two of the sensitive seismometers built for the InSight Mars mission to land on the far side of the Moon, where they will measure far side moonquakes and meteor impacts for the first time ever. .
Launch date: 2025
ASTHROS (short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths) is a high-altitude balloon mission for studying astrophysical phenomena. .
Launch date: Dec. 1, 2024
NASA's Europa Clipper will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa and investigate whether the icy moon could have conditions suitable for life. .
Launch date: Oct. 10, 2024
A trio of small rovers will work as a team to explore the Moon autonomously, mapping the subsurface in 3D, collecting distributed measurements, and showing the potential of multirobot missions. .
Launch date: 2024
Using advanced radar imaging that will provide an unprecedented, detailed view of Earth, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR, satellite is designed to observe and take measurements of some of the planet's most complex processes. .
The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. .
Launch date: Oct. 13, 2023
The experiment will aim to demonstrate high-bandwidth communications in deep space for the first time. .
Launch date: Oct. 5, 2023
Euclid will investigate the profound cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. .
Launch date: July 2023
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission will provide new insights into the lunar water cycle. .
Launch date: 2023
Designed to make the first-ever global survey of Earth's surface water, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography, or SWOT, satellite will collect detailed measurements of how water bodies on Earth change over time. .
Launch date: Dec. 16, 2022
Roughly the size of a briefcase, Lunar Flashlight is a very small satellite being developed and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that will use near-infrared lasers and an onboard spectrometer to map ice in permanently shadowed regions near the Moon's south pole. .
Launch date: Dec. 11, 2022
