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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ( WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) is a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009. [2] [3] [4] WISE discovered thousands of minor planets and numerous star clusters.
The Kepler space telescope is a defunct space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 [5] to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. [6] [7] Named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, [8] the spacecraft was launched into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. The principal investigator was William J. Borucki. After nine and a half years of operation, the telescope's reaction control system ...
Space policy process. United States space policy is drafted by the Executive branch at the direction of the President of the United States, and submitted for approval and establishment of funding to the legislative process of the United States Congress . Space advocacy organizations may provide advice to the government and lobby for space goals.
Events from the year 2009 in the United States. ... June 18 – NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/LCROSS probes to the Moon, ... December 18 – Avatar, ...
^ "United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches Moon Missions for NASA". United Launch Alliance. June 18, 2009. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
Launched on June 18, 2009, [11] in conjunction with the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), as the vanguard of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, [12] LRO was the first United States mission to the Moon in over ten years. [13] LRO and LCROSS were launched as part of the United States's Vision for Space Exploration program.
17th (2007) The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area. [4] In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects.
The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA) was a 80/20 joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) [1] to construct and maintain an airborne observatory. NASA awarded the contract for the development of the aircraft, operation of the observatory and management of the American part of the project to the ...
Explorers Program. An Explorer mission observes Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, flaring. The Explorers program [1] is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space. Launched in 1958, Explorer 1 was the first spacecraft of the ...
^ Collins, Michael (May 1984). "STS-41C National Space Transportation System Program Mission Report" (PDF). NASA. p. 5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 February 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2009.