Himawari or Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (GMS), was a series of Japanese weather satellites operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The first GMS satellite was launched 14 July 1977 from Cape…

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA mission which will observe the Sun for over five years. Launched on February 11, 2010, the observatory is part of the Living…

Living With a Star (LWS) is a NASA scientific program to study those aspects of the connected Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. LWS is a crosscutting initiative…

World View Enterprises, Inc. is a new venture (date: Oct. 2013) headed by veteran space entrepreneurs plans to send tourists…

Dauria Aerospace is a satellite manufacturer. It manufactures low cost small satellites. The reduction of costs combined with enhanced performance…

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), informally called Mangalyaan by the media, is a planned Mars orbiter to be launched in November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The…

Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. is a private company offering small satellite launch services. GOLS serves micro and nano satellite…

LunarSail is a cubesat-based space mission established by the Aerospace Research & Engineering Systems Institute, Inc. (ARES Institute). LunarSail is designed to use a solar sail to propel a small…

Aerospace Research & Engineering Systems Institute, Inc. (ARES Institute) is an American 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization founded to promote…

The Large Underground Xenon Detector (LUX) is a 370 kg liquid xenon physics experiment that aims to directly detect interactions between Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter and ordinary…