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The BRRISON mission is an unprecedented rapid response to the opportunity presented by the discovery of comet ISON, providing a new planetary science platform which will fly above 99.5 percent…
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The BeiDou Navigation System is a project of China to develop an independent satellite navigation system. It may refer to either one or both generations of the Chinese navigation system.…
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BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. It will set off in 2015 on a journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. When it…
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BLUEsat, an acronym of Basic Low-Earth-orbit University of NSW Experimental satellite, is a digital amateur radio satellite being designed and built solely by students here at the University of NSW.…
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The Boeing 601 satellite is a body-stabilized geostationary satellite. The Boeing 601 was introduced in 1987 to meet anticipated requirements for high-power, multiple-payload satellites for such applications as direct television…
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The Boeing 702 satellite is a family of geostationnary satellites designed and manufactured by the company Boeing. Its design requirements include lower cost and high reliability. It offers a broad…
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BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is an open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. It was originally developed to support the SETI@home project before it…
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The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made. The starting point for Bolshoi was the best ground-…
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The BRITE constellation is a network of nano-satellites to investigate the properties of the brightest stars in the sky. It currently consists of a group of six nano-satellites which will…
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Cassini–Huygens is a NASA-ESA-ASI robotic spacecraft sent to the Saturn system. It has studied the planet and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004, also observing Jupiter, the …
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Challenging Minisatellite Payload (CHAMP) was a German satellite launched July 15, 2000 from Plesetsk, Russia, and was used for atmospheric and ionospheric research, as well as other geoscientific applications, such…
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a satellite launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. It was named in honor of Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekharwho is known for determining…
