GENERAL INFORMATION

• NSSDC's Chronology of Lunar and Planetary Exploration

SUN

• TRACE
  Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
• SOHO
  SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory
• YOHKOH
  Soft X-Ray Telescope
• SPARTAN 201
  Solar Astronomy Home Page
• Ulysses
  

MOON

• LunarSat
  
• Lunar A
  
• Lunar Prospector
  

PLANETS

• Cassini
  Mission to saturn. Carries descender Huygens. Successfully launched on October 16, 1997.
• Magellan
  Past Venus mission
• Mars Global Surveyor
  Arrived at Mars September 12, 1997.
• Mars Pathfinder
  Succesfully landed, July 4, 1997.
• MARS-96
  Russian Mars mission. Launch failure, November 16, 1996.
• Mars Surveyor '98
  Mars Climate Orbiter (launched December 11, 1998) and
  Mars Polar Lander (launched January 3, 1999).
• Mars Surveyor 2001
• The Whole Mars Catalog
  Information on Mars and Mars missions.
• NEAR
  Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous to asteroid Eros. Arrival January, 1999.
• Galileo to Jupiter
  
• New Millennium
  New technologies to explore the solar system.
• Stardust
  Cometary coma sample return. Launched February 7, 1999.
• Voyager
  Past mission to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
• Probes and satellites of ISAS.
  (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan)
• The Planetaray Data System (PDS)

INTERPLANETARY SPACE, HELIOSPHERE, EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE AND UPPER ATMOSPHERE

• IMAGE
  Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration.
  To be launched 15 february 2000.
• PIXIE
  Polar Ionospheric X-ray Imaging Experiment
• Space Physics Data System (SPDS)

EARTH OBSERVATION

• Topex/Poseidon
  The Oceanic Topography Experiment (1992)
• Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER)
  Instrument on board of EOS AM-1, NASA's first Earth Observing System's satellite (1998)
• Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS)
• Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)
• Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy (ATMOS)
• Imaging Radar Program
• Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR)

ASTRONOMY

• HETE (High Energy Transient Experiment)
  Gamma-ray burst detector, X-ray and ultraviolet cameras. Launch failure.
• SAC-B
  Soft X-rays and gamma ray bursts emitted by solar flares and gamma ray bursts. Launch failure.
• Exploration of neighboring Planetary Systems (ExNPS)
• Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Project Project
  
• Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF)

MORE LINKS

• Brian Robert's Space Hotlist

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