- NASA's Explorers Program (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Missions/NASA_s_Explorers_Program
- CryoSat-2 - ESA
European Space Agency Cryo-Stat 2 mission using radar altimetry to study the Earth's continental and marine ice cover.
www.esa.int/esaLP/LPcryosat.html
- Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project
A private initiative to study the effects of Martian gravity on mammals where a satellite will carry a population of mice to simulate the gravity on the Martian surface.
www.marsgravity.org
- SUNSAT: Stellenbosch UNiversity SATellite
A micro-satellite built by post-graduate engineering students. Payloads include NASA experiments, amateur radio communications, a high resolution imager, precision attitude control, and school experiments.
sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za
- Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
Providing data that will yield a better understanding of the upper atmosphere and the effects of natural events and human activities on that region.
umpgal.gsfc.nasa.gov
- PCsat
Information on a Naval Academy amateur radio satellite.
www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pcsat.html
- Munin Nanosatellite
Joint project between IRF, RYP, Luth and SwRI. It is a pilot project to demonstrate the possibility to use satellites of nano-size for scientific measurement.
munin.irf.se
- Yohkoh Public Outreach Project
Yohkoh satellite is an observatory for studying X-rays and gamma-rays from the Sun. Site features data including movies and a wealth of information about the Sun.
solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP
- Student Nitric Oxide Explorer
SNOE is a small scientific satellite that will investigate the effects of energy from the sun and from the magnetosphere on the density of nitric oxide in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
lasp.colorado.edu/snoe
- CRRES Mission
Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite is part of the SPACERAD project of the USAF. It is a triple mission to perform active experiments.
tide1.space.swri.edu/crres.html
- ESA Meteosat Second Generation
Offers information on the satellites that deliver images meteorologists use to forecast earth's weather.
www.esa.int/export/esaSA/GGGGEHCM8EC_earth_0.html
- TERRIERS
Scientific research project involves a combination of satellite and groundbased instrumentation designed to make daily global measurements of the earth's ionosphere and thermosphere.
www.bu.edu/satellite
- NASA CALIPSO
Learn how Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO), along with the CloudSat satellite, will provide a new, 3-D perspective on Earth's clouds and airborne particles called aerosols.
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/calipso/main
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