Directory of Unmanned Resources

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Unmanned Earth orbiting satellites and robotic exploratory spacecraft to the planets, comets, asteroids, and the sun. Sites pertaining to past, current, and future or proposed missions may be included in this category.

Subcategories

• Asteroids and Comets
• Deep Space
• Earth Observing
• Earth Orbit
• Mars
• Mercury
• Moon
• Outer Solar System
• Solar Sails
• Sun
• Venus

Resources in This Category

• A History of Unmanned Space Missions

  http://www.windows2universe.org/space_missions/unmanned_table.html
  Chronological listings of unmanned missions from 1957-2004. Includes dates and mission highlights.

• Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex

  http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/
  One of the three Deep Space Network stations, CDSCC provides critical communications and tracking information to interplanetary space probes.

• CYGAM

  http://www.iki.rssi.ru/cygam/english/contents.htm
  Offers description and data on a gamma-ray telescope flown on several space missions.

• GAIA: The Galactic Census Project

  http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=GAIA
  A European Space Agency astrometry satellite mission designed to determine the composition, formation and evolution of our Galaxy, and create a detailed 3D map of over a billion stars.

• High Energy Missions

  http://astroe.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/alphabet.html
  NASA guide to the scientific equipment and research aboard high-energy astrophysics missions.

• INTEGRAL

  http://sci.esa.int/home/integral/
  Provides updated mission status, spacecraft and scientific data about a gamma ray observatory spacecraft of the European Space Agency.

• Interball

  http://www.iki.rssi.ru/interball/
  Provides overview of Russian participation in a mission studying plasma processes with several spacecraft at the L1/L2 Sun/Earth libration points.

• RXTE Mission

  http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/XTE.html
  Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer is a Goddard mission which was launched on December 30th, 1995. RXTE is designed to facilitate the study of time variability in the emission of X-ray sources with moderate spectral resolution.

• Space Science Missions of the European Space Agency

  http://sci.esa.int/
  Information and data on those of ESA's past, present, and future satellite missions related to astronomy and astrophysics.

• The Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE)

  http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/wire/
  A spaceborne, cryogenically-cooled imaging telescope designed to explore the evolution of starburst galaxies and to search for protogalaxies.

• USGS Astrogeology Research Program

  http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/
  Features planetary imagery, research, GIS, mapping, and image processing software. Offers data from a variety of space mission.

• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)

  http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/
  Offers project and scientific information on a coming infrared observatory mission to observe stars and galaxies.

• XMM-Newton

  http://xmm.vilspa.esa.es/
  The European Space Agency's XMM satellite official home page. News updates and multimedia.

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