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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) was 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. Its observations also supported the discovery of the first Y-type brown dwarf ...
This phase was successfully completed by January 2008 at NASA- Armstrong Flight Research Center. [36] On December 18, 2009, the SOFIA aircraft performed the first test flight in which the telescope door was fully opened. This phase lasted for two minutes of the 79-minute flight.
Suborbital spaceflight in 2009 saw a number of sounding rocket and missile launches. New Zealand's Ātea-1 sounding rocket was launched on 30 November, marking that country's first suborbital flight. Russia twice attempted launches of its Bulava missile, however both launches failed.
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.
NASA International Space Station Page (December 18, 2009). LOCAD-PTS International Space Station (ISS) Page. LOCAD-PTS Exploration International Space Station (ISS) Page. Archived 2009-04-07 at the Wayback Machine "No Foolin' -- 'Lab on a Chip' Works!" Science@NASA (April 6, 2007). "ISS Spacewalkers Test Planetary Protection Concept." Science ...
The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) [ 6 ] is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the Sun. It will approach to within 9.86 solar radii (6.9 million km or 4.3 million miles) [ 7 ][ 8 ] from the center of the Sun, and by 2025 will ...
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 United States to ...
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986. The mission, designated STS-107, was the twenty-eighth flight for the ...