Missions

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Last Sunday, Orbital Sciences Corp. Cygnus commercial cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station on its first resupply mission.

The most advanced instrument yet for imaging extrasolar planets is now observing the stars.

Environmental research and weather forecasting are about to get a significant technology boost as NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) prepare to launch a new satellite in February.

Over the last 50 years, the Deep Space Network--a worldwide network of three tracking sites--has contributed to missions that have captured images from all planets in our solar system as well as cosmic phenomena from light years away.

NASA reviews some of the amazing accomplishments made by space scientists and engineers in 2013.

NASA's NEOWISE has returned images in preparation for its renewed mission. The spacecraft already discovered more than 34,000 asteroids during its prime mission. It will now continue its mission to make the most comprehensive survey of asteroids and comets.

As 2013 draws to a close, Astrobiology Magazine highlights the year's top stories. At number 9, NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017. One of the missions is the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which will use an array of telescopes

The RAVAN project aims to launch small satellites in order to develop a dynamic 3D model of Earth’s global temperatures.

The Gaia spacecraft, scheduled for launch on December 19, could be a bonanza for discovering exoplanets.