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Category: Mission.Category: future.
Category: Mission.Category: future.
CADRE
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: 2026
Category: Mission.Category: future.
Category: Mission.Category: future.
Farside Seismic Suite
Farside Seismic Suite will deliver two sensitive seismometers to the far side of the Moon, where they will measure far-side moonquakes and meteor impacts for the first time ever. .
Launch date: 2026
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
SPHEREx
The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission will provide an all-sky spectral survey. Over a two-year planned mission, the SPHEREx Observatory will collect data on more than 450 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe. .
Launch date: March 11, 2025
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Lunar Trailblazer
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission will provide new insights into the lunar water cycle. .
Launch date: Feb. 26, 2025
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
NISAR
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. .
Launch date: 2025
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Europa Clipper
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. 14, 2024
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
PREFIRE
A CubeSat mission to reveal new aspects of the Arctic climate by measuring the full spectrum of polar radiant energy. .
Launch date: May 25, 2024
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Psyche
The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. .
Launch date: Oct. 13, 2023
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
The experiment will aim to demonstrate high-bandwidth communications in deep space for the first time. .
Launch date: Oct. 5, 2023
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Euclid
Euclid will investigate the profound cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. .
Launch date: July 2023
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Surface Water and Ocean Topography
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
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Category: Mission.Category: current.
Lunar Flashlight
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

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