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Spacecraft Data on the Web

Spacecraft

Encyclopedia Astronautica
Everything you would ever want to know a past, future, and unbuilt spacecraft.
Jonathan's Space Home Page
Jonathan McDowell, author of the weekley email newsletter, Jonathan's Space Report, has lots of information on the history of spaceflight, as well as logs of launches and satellites.
Basics of Spaceflight
This is a training module designed primarily to help JPL operations people identify the range of concepts associated with deep space missions and grasp the relationships these concepts exhibit for space flight.
List
Patrick Shopbell at Caltech has put together a nice list of spacecraft information available on the Internet.
Planetary Data System Planetary Image Atlas
Access to spacecraft images from Galileo, Viking, Mars Pathfinder, Magellan, and Clementine.
Cassini
A joint ESA-NASA mission on its way to Saturn. Images are archived at the University of Arizona and JPL.
Jupiter Millenium Flyby by Cassinni and Galileo.
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Data is avaiable from the Chandra Science Center and NASA Goddard.
CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour)
Slated to launch July 1, 2002, this spacecraft will encounter Comet Encke in November 2003 and Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 in June 2006 as close as 100 miles (160 kilometers), taking high-resolution photos of the comet nucleus, mapping the types of rock and ice on the nucleus, and analyzing the composition of the surrounding gas and dust.
Darwin
A proposed ESA space infrared interferometer project
Dawn
A Discovery-class probe to the asteroids Ceres and Vesta.
Deep Impact
The first mission to look deep beneath the surface of a comet.
Deep Space 1
A NASA New Millenium project to fly by an astroid, a comet, and Mars.
Data is being released by the Planetary Data System.
You need Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS) from the U.S.Geological Survey Flagstaff Field Center to use the data.
Galileo
images from this spacecraft which is still orbiting Jupiter.
Hubble Space Telescope (Space Telescope Science Institute)
ISO (Infrared Space Observatory)
International Space Station
It's not really science, but maybe someday some science will be done there.
JIMO A NASA mission proposed for 2011 or later to explor the three icy moons of Jupiter: Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa.
Kepler
A Discovery-class satellite to detect earth-like planets around other stars.
Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
All 675 plates contained in the original 1971 work have been digitized by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), which considers it "the definitive reference manual to the global photographic coverage of the Moon."
Lunar Prospector
Papers in Science special issue
Mars Exploration Rover Mission
A dual mission to land two rovers on Mars in January 2004, managed by JPL.
Mars Exploration Program landing sites.
[pictures] [press releases]
Mars Express
ESA's first trip to Mars.
Mars Global Surveyor
Image repostitory through Februar2000.y
Images as they are released (JPL) The USGS Flagstaff PDS Node has a repository of all aerobraking phase images. The Laser Altimeter has its own site, and here is its view of Mars. Elsewhere, there are simulated 3D surface pictures based on MGS data and an article on how they were created.
Mars Odyssey 2001
Launced April 7, 2001, and arriving at Mars in October of the same year, this spacecraft is chemically mapping the surface of Mars with Infrared and gamma ray spectrometers and study the Martian radiation environment. Here are the latest pictures. Here is a Javascript map of Mars which will let you zoom in on Themis pictures. Other data is being released through the Planetary Data System.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scheduled for launch August 10-30, 2005, is on a search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of Mars for a long period of time. Its instruments will zoom in for extreme close-up photography of the martian surface, analyze minerals, look for subsurface water, trace how much dust and water are distributed in the atmosphere, and monitor daily global weather.
Mars Surveyor '98
An orbiter and a lander will arrive at Mars in late 1999.
Messenger
Discovery-class Mercury orbiter from APL
MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars)
Dubbed the "Humble Space Telescope" because it's just the mass and size of a suitcase, this Canadian Space Agency satellite is designed to detect tiny variations in starlight and reflected light from planets outside the Solar System to probe both the deep interiors of stars and the outer atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
MUSES-C
A sample return mission to the asteroid 4660 Nereus, with the asteroid 1989 ML as a backup.
NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous)
SMART-1 (European Lunar Orbiter)
An ion-powered lunar orbiter to be launched in September 2003.
SOHO
Movies and pictures from the Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph Experiment (LASCO).
Spitzer Space Telescope
Formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), this infrared telescope in space is the last of NASA's Great Observatories. Data can be found at the Spitzer Science Center (SSC).
STARDUST
Photo Gallery
TrailBlazer
A private lunar probe proposed by TransOrbital, Inc. which would produce a high-resolution lunar atlas and other commercial data products.
XMM-Newton at ESA
Guest Observer Facility at NASA-Goddard

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Last updated 30 December 2011 by
Jessica Mink