OSIRIS is an intrument onboard the satellite ODIN. It measures the ozone depletion. The data collection started in 2001 and is still ongoing (July 2012).
OSIRIS-REx (NASA's Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer) is a planned asteroid study and sample return mission. It is a planetary science mission, the third selected in the…
The Pegasus rocket is an air-launched winged space launch vehicle capable of carrying small, unmanned payloads (443 kilograms (980 lb)) into low Earth orbit. It became operational in 1990 and…
Perseus is a constellation of Earth observation satellite, based on the CubeSat platform. Perseus will provide high quality imagery of the entire Earth, everyday, from a light CubeSat platform, offering…
Philae is a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanies its Rosetta spacecraft. It is designed to land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shortly after arrival in 2014. The lander is named…
Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The Phoenix lander descended on Mars on May 25, 2008. Mission scientists used…
NASA's PhoneSat project will demonstrate the ability to launch the lowest-cost and easiest to build satellites ever flown in space – capabilities enabled by using off-the-shelf consumer smartphones to build…
Planck — a Cosmic Microwave Background explorer, after COBE & WMAP. launched in may 2009. Planck is a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA) and designed to observe…
PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) was proposed as an M-class candidate mission for the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme in response to the Call for Proposals issued by ESA…
The Pléiades constellation is composed of two very-high-resolution optical Earth-imaging satellites. Pléiades 1 and Pléiades 2 will provide coverage of Earth’s surface with a repeat cycle of 26 days .…
Pocket Spacecraft is a low cost, open source, open access, mass space exploration system that anyone can use. It is aimed to open space exploration to everyone. Its aim is…
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, commonly known by its abbreviation PSLV, is an expendable launch system developed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was developed to…