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Able 1 (Pioneer 0)

Able 2 (Pioneer 1)

Able 4B (Pioneer P-3)

Able 5A (Pioneer P-30)

Able 5B (Pioneer P-31)

ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer)

ACME (Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments)

ACRIMSAT (Active Cavity Irradiance Monitor Satellite)

ACS3 (Advanced Composite Solar Sail System)

ACT-America (Atmospheric Carbon and Transport – America)

ADEOS / Midori (Advanced Earth Observing Satellite)

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)

Advanced Plant Habitat

Advanced Spacesuits

Akatsuki

AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere)

AirMOSS (Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface)

AirSTAR

Analog Missions

Apollo Program

Apollo 1

Apollo 7

Apollo 8

Apollo 9

Apollo 10

Apollo 11

Apollo 12

Apollo 13

Apollo 14

Apollo 15

Apollo 15 Subsatellite

Apollo 16

Apollo 16 Subsatellite

Apollo 17

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Aqua

Aquarius

ARCTAS (Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites)

ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey)

Artemis

Artemis 1

Artemis 2

ARTEMIS (THEMIS) (Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon’s Interaction with the Sun)

ASCA (Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics)

ASTHROS (Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths)

Astro Observatory 1

Astro Observatory 2

ATLAS (Atmospheric Laboratory of Applications and Science)

Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)

Atlas 7 (Aurora 7)

Atlas 8 (Sigma 7)

Atlas 9 (Faith 7)

ATS (Applications Technology Satellite)

ATTREX (Airborne Tropical TRopopause Experiment)

ATom (Atmospheric Tomography Mission)

Aura

AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment)

B

BARREL (Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses)

BBXRT (Broad Band X-ray Telescope)

BECCAL (Bose Einstein Condensates & Cold Atoms Lab)

BepiColombo

Beresheet

BioExpt-01 (Biological Experiment-01 on Artemis I)

BRIC-24 (Biological Research in Canisters)

C

CAL (Cold Atom Laboratory)

CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite)

Carruthers Geocorona Observatory

Cassini-Huygens

CARVE (Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment)

CATS (Cloud-Aerosol Transport System)

CeREs (Compact Radiation Belt Explorer)

CGRO (Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory)

CHAMP (Challenging Mini-satellite Payload)

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Chandrayaan-1 / Moon Impact Probe

Chandrayaan-2

Chandrayaan-3

CHIPS (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer)

CINDI/CNOFS (Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamic Investigation)

CLARREO Pathfinder

Clementine

CloudSat

Cluster II

COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer)

Commercial Crew

Commercial Resupply 

CONTOUR (COmet Nucleus TOUR)

CORAL (COral Reef Airborne Observatory)

COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager)

CRRES (Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite)

Cryogenic Fluid Management

CubeSat Launch Initiative

CuPID (Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector)

CuSP (CubeSat Mission to Study Solar Particles)

Curiosity (MSL)

CYGNSS (Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System)

D

DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)

DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging)

Dawn

Deep Impact (EPOXI)

Deep Space 1

Desert RATS (Research and Technology Studies)

DISCOVER AQ (Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from COlumn and VERtically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality)

Disturbance Reduction System

Dragonfly

DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory)

DXS (Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer)

Dynamics Explorer

E

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ECOSTRESS (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station)

EFT 1 (Exploration Flight Test 1)

ELaNa

ELFIN

EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation)

EnVision

EO-1 (Earth Observing-1)

Equator-S

ERBS (Earth Radiation Budget Satellite)

EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)

ESSA (Environmental Sciences Services Administration)

E-TBEx (Enhanced Tandem Beacon Experiment)

Euclid

Europa Clipper

Europa Lander

EUVE (Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer)

EUVST (Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon)

ExoMars Rover (ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Mission)

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter / Schiaparelli

Expedition 1

Expedition 2

Expedition 3

Expedition 4

Expedition 5

Expedition 6

Expedition 7

Expedition 8

Expedition 9

Expedition 10

Expedition 11

Expedition 12

Expedition 13

Expedition 14

Expedition 15

Expedition 16

Expedition 17

Expedition 18

Expedition 19

Expedition 20

Expedition 21

Expedition 22

Expedition 23

Expedition 24

Expedition 25

Expedition 26

Expedition 27

Expedition 28

Expedition 29

Expedition 30

Expedition 31

Expedition 32

Expedition 33

Expedition 34

Expedition 35

Expedition 36

Expedition 37

Expedition 38

Expedition 39

Expedition 40

Expedition 41

Expedition 42

Expedition 43

Expedition 44

Expedition 45

Expedition 46

Expedition 47

Expedition 48

Expedition 49

Expedition 50

Expedition 51

Expedition 52

Expedition 53

Expedition 54

Expedition 55

Expedition 56

Expedition 57

Expedition 58

Expedition 59

Expedition 60

Expedition 61

Expedition 62

Expedition 63

Expedition 64

Expedition 65

Expedition 66

Expedition 67

Expedition 68

Expedition 69

Expeditions

Explorer 33

Explorer 35

Explorer 49

EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer)

F

FAST (Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer)

FASTSat (Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite)

FBCE (Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment)

Fermi (Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope)

FFL (Fruit Fly Lab)

FLARE (Flammability Limits At Reduced-g Experiment)

FUSE (Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer)

G

Gaia

GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer)

Galileo

Galileo Jupiter Atmospheric Probe

Gateway

GDC (Geospace Dynamics Constellation)

GEDI (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation)

Gemini

Gemini I

Gemini II

Gemini III

Gemini IV

Gemini V

Gemini VI

Gemini VII

Gemini VIII

Gemini IX

Gemini X

Gemini XI

Gemini XII

Genesis

Geosat (U.S. Navy GEOdetic SATellite)

Geotail

Giotto

GLIMR (Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer)

Glory

GOES Satellite Network

GOES-U

GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)

GP-B (Gravity Probe B)

GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement)

GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment)

GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)

GRAIL (Ebb and Flow) (Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory)

Green Propellant Infusion

GRIP (Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes)

Ground Facilities for ISS

H

HALCA (Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy)

HaloSat

Hayabusa

Hayabusa2

Helios 1

Helios 2

HelioSwarm

HERMES (Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite)

Herschel Space Observatory

HETE 1 (High Energy Transient Explorer 1)

HETE 2 (High Energy Transient Explorer 2)

Hinode (Solar-B)

Hipparcos

Hiten / Hagoromo

Hitomi

HS3 (Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel)

Hubble Space Telescope

Huygens

I

IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer)

IceBridge

ICESat (Ice, Clouds and Land Elevation Satellite)

ICESat-2 (Ice, Clouds and Land Elevation Satellite 2)

ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer)

IEH-3 (International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker)

IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration)

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

IMP-8 (Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-8)

INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts)

InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport)

INTEGRAL (International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory)

International Space Station (ISS)

IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph)

ISEE-3/ICE (International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 / International Cometary Explorer)

ISO (Infrared Space Observatory)

ISRU (In-Situ Resource Utilization)

IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer)

IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)

J

Janus

Jason-1

Jason-3

Jason-CS (Jason Continuity of Service/Sentinel-6)

JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System)

JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer)

Juno

JWST (James Webb Space Telescope)

K

Kaguya

KAO (Kuiper Airborne Observatory)

Keck Interferometer (KI)

Kepler / K2

L

LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer)

LAGEOS (LAser GEOdynamics Satellites 1 & 2)

Landsat 7

Landsat 8

Landsat 9

Laser Communications Relay Demonstration

LBTI (Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer)

LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite)

LEIA (Lunar Explorer Instrument for space biology Applications)

Leonid MAC

Libera

LIS (Lightning Imaging Sensor)

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)

LISA Pathfinder (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)

Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator

LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter)

Lucy

LunaH-Map (Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper)

Lunar Orbiter 1

Lunar Orbiter 2

Lunar Orbiter 3

Lunar Orbiter 4

Lunar Orbiter 5

Lunar Prospector

Lunar Trailblazer

M

Magellan

MAIA (Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols)

MarCO (Mars Cube One)

Mariner 1

Mariner 2

Mariner 3

Mariner 4

Mariner 5

Mariner 6

Mariner 7

Mariner 8

Mariner 9

Mariner 10

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover

Mars Climate Orbiter

Mars Exploration Rover — Opportunity (MER)

Mars Exploration Rover — Spirit (MER)

Mars Express

Mars Global Surveyor

Mars Observer

Mars Odyssey

Mars Orbiter Mission

Mars Pathfinder

Mars Phoenix Lander

Mars Polar Lander / Deep Space 2

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mars Sample Return

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging)

MetOP A/B/C (Meteorological Operational satellite)

Micro-10

Mini-RF

MinXSS-3 (Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (AKA: INSPIRESat-1 [International Satellite Program in Research and Education Sat-1]))

MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale)

MMX (Martian Moons eXploration)

MOMS (Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner)

MOS (Marine Observation Satellite)

MSRR (Materials Science Research Rack)

Multi-Spectral Fluorescence Imaging System for Studying Gene Expression on ISS

MUSE (Multi-slit Solar Explorer)

N

NAAMES (North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study)

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

NanoSail-D

NEA Scout (Near Earth Asteroid Scout)

NEAR Shoemaker

NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations)

NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope)

New Horizons

NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer)

Nimbus

NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)

Nozomi

NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array)

O

OAO (Orbiting Astronomical Observatory)

OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory)

OCO-2 (Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2)

OCO-3 (Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3)

OMG (Oceans Melting Greenland)

OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite)

One Year Crew

Opportunity (Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity (MER-B))

ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their IntEractionS)

O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses)

ORFEUS-SPAS II (Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer-Shuttle PAllet Satellite II)

Orion Spacecraft

OSIRIS-REx

OSTM / Jason-2 (Ocean Surface Topography Mission)

P

PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)

Parker Solar Probe

PFMI (Pore Formation and Mobility Investigation)

PharmaSat

Phoenix

Pioneer 0 (Able 1)

Pioneer 1 (Able 2)

Pioneer 2

Pioneer 3

Pioneer 4

Pioneer 5

Pioneer 6

Pioneer 7

Pioneer 8

Pioneer 9

Pioneer 10

Pioneer 11

Pioneer-E

Pioneer Venus 1

Pioneer Venus 2

Planck

Plasma Kristall-4

Polar

PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment)

PRESat (PharmaSat Risk Evaluation Satellite)

PRIME-1 (Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1)

Project Mercury

Psyche

PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere)

Q

Q-PACE (CubeSat Particle Aggregation and Collision Experiment)

Quesst (X-59)

QuikSCAT (Quick Scatterometer)

R

RADARSAT-1 (Radar Satellite-1)

Ranger 1

Ranger 2

Ranger 3

Ranger 4

Ranger 5

Ranger 6

Ranger 7

Ranger 8

Ranger 9

RapidScat (ISS-RapidScat)

Redstone 3 (Freedom 7)

Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7)

RHESSI (Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager)

Rodent Research

Roman (Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope)

ROSAT (ROentgen SATellite)

Rosetta-Philae

RXTE (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer)

S

SAC-B (Satelite de Aplicaciones Científicas)

SAGE III (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III)

SAGE-III (SAGE-III Meteor 3M)

Sakigake

SAMPEX (Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer)

SEAC4RS (Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys)

Seasat 1

SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor)

SeaWinds on ADEOS II (SeaWinds on the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite II (ADEOS II))

SET-1 (Space Environment Testbeds 1)

Shuttle-Mir

Skylab

SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)

Shuttle Imaging Radar (Shuttle Imaging Radar-C / X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar)

Small Satellite Missions

SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive)

SMART-1 (Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology)

SMS (Synchronous Meteorological Satellite)

SNOE (Student Nitric Oxide Explorer)

SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy)

SoFIE (Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction)

SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)

Solar Orbiter

SORTIE (Scintillation Observations & Response of the Ionosphere to Electrodynamics)

Solar Sail Demonstrator

SORCE (Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment)

Space Shuttle Era

Spartan 201

SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)

Spirit (Mars Exploration Rover – Spirit)

Spitzer Space Telescope

SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission)

ST5

ST6

ST7

Stardust / Stardust NExT

STEREO A & B (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)

STS-1

STS-2

STS-3

STS-4

STS-5

STS-6

STS-7

STS-8

STS-9

STS-26

STS-27

STS-28

STS-29

STS-30

STS-31

STS-32

STS-33

STS-34

STS-35

STS-36

STS-37

STS-38

STS-39

STS-40

STS-41

STS-41B

STS-41C

STS-41D

STS-41G

STS-42

STS-43

STS-44

STS-45

STS-46

STS-47

STS-48

STS-49

STS-50

STS-51

STS-51A

STS-51B

STS-51C

STS-51D

STS-51F

STS-51G

STS-51I

STS-51J

STS-51L

STS-52

STS-53

STS-54

STS-55

STS-56

STS-57

STS-58

STS-59

STS-60

STS-61

STS-61A

STS-61B

STS-61C

STS-62

STS-63

STS-64

STS-65

STS-66

STS-67

STS-68

STS-69

STS-70

STS-71

STS-72

STS-73

STS-74

STS-75

STS-76

STS-77

STS-78

STS-79

STS-80

STS-81

STS-82

STS-83

STS-84

STS-85

STS-86

STS-87

STS-88

STS-89

STS-90

STS-91

STS-92

STS-93

STS-94

STS-95

STS-96

STS-97

STS-98

STS-99

STS-100

STS-101

STS-102

STS-103

STS-104

STS-105

STS-106

STS-107

STS-108

STS-109

STS-110

STS-111

STS-112

STS-113

STS-114

STS-115

STS-116

STS-117

STS-118

STS-119

STS-120

STS-121

STS-122

STS-123

STS-124

STS-125

STS-126

STS-127

STS-128

STS-129

STS-130

STS-131

STS-132

STS-133

STS-134

STS-135

SUBSA (Solidification Using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules)

SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment)

Suomi NPP (Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership)

Surveyor 1

Surveyor 2

Surveyor 3

Surveyor 4

Surveyor 5

Surveyor 6

Surveyor 7

Surveyor Model 1

Surveyor Model 2

Suzaku

SWAS (Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite)

Swift Space Observatory

SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)

T

TDRS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite)

Technology Demonstration Missions

Telerobotics

TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution)

Terra

Terriers (Tomographic Experiment Using Radiative Recombinative Ionospheric EUV and Radio Sources)

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

THEMIS Science (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms)

TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics)

TIROS (Television Infrared Observation Satellite Program)

TOMS-EP (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer-Earth Probe)

TOPEX/Poseidon

TRACE (Transition Region And Coronal Explorer)

TRACER-AQ (Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment-Air Quality)

TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission)

TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats)

TSIS-1 (Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor)

TSIS-2 (Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor)

TSS (Tethered Satellite System)

TWINS (Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers)

U

UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite)

Ulysses

V

Van Allen Probes

VEGGIE (Vegetable Production System)

Venus Express

VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography and Spectroscopy)

Viking 1

Viking 2

VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)

Voyager 1

Voyager 2

Voyager Program

W

WetLab-2

Wind

WIRE (Wide-field InfraRed Explorer)

WISE/NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer)

WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe)

X

XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission Newton)

XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission)

Y

Yohkoh

Z

ZBOT-NC (Zero Boil-Off Tank-Non-Condensable)