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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: October 2024
The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission will provide the first all-sky spectral survey. Over a two-year planned mission, the SPHEREx Observatory will collect data on more than 300 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe. .
Launch date: June 2024
The tiny wheeled rovers are designed work together to explore challenging terrain on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. .
Launch date: 2024
The Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment, or SunRISE, is an array of six toaster-size CubeSats that will work together to study solar activity. .
The experiment will aim to demonstrate high-bandwidth communications in deep space for the first time. .
Launch date: Oct. 5, 2023
The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. .
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission will provide new insights into the lunar water cycle. .
Launch date: 2023
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
VERITAS, short for Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography, And Spectroscopy, is a Venus orbiter designed to reveal how the paths of Venus and Earth diverged, and how Venus lost its potential as a habitable world. .
Launch date: TBD