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STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is a NASA solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits around the sun that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead…
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Sunjammer is a solar sail constructed by LGarde for NASA. It is the largest solar sail to be constructed as of 2013. Sunjammer is slated to launch in November 2014…
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The Sunrise project is a balloon-borne solar observatory. It consists of a 1m aperture Gregory telescope, a UV filter imager, an imaging vector polarimeter, an image stabilization system and further…
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The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, or Suomi NPP, is a weather satellite operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Originally intended as a pathfinder for the NPOESS…
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Suzaku (formerly ASTRO-EII) is a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite. It was launched on 10 July 2005 aboard the M-V-6 rocket. The project was renamed Suzaku after its successful launch after…
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Swarm is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study the Earth's magnetic field. The Swarm concept consists of a constellation of three satellites in three different polar orbits between…
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The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission consists of a robotic spacecraft called Swift, which was launched into orbit on 20 November 2004. Swift is managed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight…
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TARANIS is a CNES microsatellite mission, proposed by LPCE (Laboratoire de Physique et de Chimie de l'Environnement), and CEA (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique) of France in collaboration with institutions from…
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TeraComp is an EU-funded project with the objective to develop Terahertz heterodyne receiver components for future European space missions. Objective Sub-millimeter wave or terahertz heterodyne receivers are key instruments for…
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Terra (EOS AM-1) is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in a sun-synchronous orbit around the Earth.[1] It is the flagship of the Earth Observing System (EOS). The name "Terra"…
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TerraSAR-X, a German Earth observation satellite, is a joint venture being carried out under a public-private-partnership between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and EADS Astrium; the exclusive commercial exploitation rights…
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TET-1 (Technologieer-probungsträger 1) is the core element of DLR's On-Orbit Verification Program(OOV). The main aim of this program is to test new space technologies in a space environment over a…