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Aquarius
Aquarius is a focused satellite mission to measure global Sea Surface Salinity (SSS).
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CINDI
CINDI seeks to discover how the neutral gas motions and the charged particle motions are related
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 Glast
GLAST
With GLAST, astronomers will at long last have a superior tool to study how black holes, notorious for pulling matter in, can accelerate jets of gas outward at fantastic speeds.
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 Glory
Glory
The GLORY satellite is a earth science mission, which uses the refurbished bus of the cancelled VCL satellite.
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GOES N-P
GOES-N Series includes GOES N, O, & P- they provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric "triggers" for severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms, and hurricanes.
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GPM
The GPM mission will measure Global Precipitation and provide improvements in water resource management.
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Ibex
The IBEX mission will study the global interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar medium.
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James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope that is designed to study the earliest galaxies and some of the first stars formed after the Big Bang. (proposed launch date of August 2013)
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LDCM
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) will ensure the continued collection of Landsat data.
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LRO
The LRO mission emphasizes the overall objective of obtaining data that will facilitate returning men safely to the Moon where testing and preparations for an eventual manned mission to Mars will be undertaken.
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NPP
The NPOESS Preparatory Project Mission is designed to function as a bridge between the NASA EOS program and NPOESS for the development of Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).
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 OCO
OCO
OCO provides space-based observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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 image of Solar Dynamic Observatory displayed using magnetic fields
SDO
The first Space Weather Research Network mission in the Living With a Star (LWS) Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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TWINS A/B
The Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS) mission provides a new capability for stereoscopically imaging the magnetosphere.
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