Missions + Surveys

Current + Planned Missions and Surveys

Current Surveys

Las Campanas Redshift Survey

Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)

Current Missions

Stardust -- will rendezvous with Comet Wild-2 in January 2004.

NEAR -- Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous arrives at Asteroid Eros 14 Febr. 2000

Cassini -- arrives at Saturn in 2004

Future/Proposed Space Missions

Hot Universe Background Explorer -- a diffuse UV and soft X-ray all-sky survey
DARWIN - Space Infrared Interferometer Project
Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) -- to be launched March 2, 2000
Microwave Anisotropy Probe -- scheduled to launch Nov. 2000
Constellation-X array of X-ray Telescopes

Future/Proposed Ground-Based Telescopes

Kepler: Search for Habitable Extrasolar Planets -- a proposed space mission to detect extrasolar Earth-size habitable planets

Very Large Telescope Project -- European Southern Observatory is building what will be the world's largest optical telescope array. Links to VLT images included.

FIRST Project

PLANCK Project
Go-Ahead for ESA Science Missions -- ESA press release on FIRST & Planck, Mar. 1999

Other Projects:

Asteroids for Space Development

IceBreaker Lunar Rover