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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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"…
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…
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…