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Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Future Missions

Missions and instruments built or managed by JPL have visited every planet in our solar system and the sun and have entered interstellar space.

Near-Earth Object Surveyor

An infrared space telescope designed to help advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts

Illustration of The Farside Seismic Suite

The Farside Seismic Suite

The Farside Seismic Suite will send two of the sensitive seismometers built for the InSight Mars mission to land on the far side of the Moon, where they will measure far side moonquakes and meteor impacts for the first time ever.

ASTHROS Mission in Flight (Illustration)

ASTHROS

ASTHROS (short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths) is a high-altitude balloon mission for studying astrophysical phenomena.

Europa Clipper Spacecraft (Illustration)

Europa Clipper

NASA's Europa Clipper will conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa and investigate whether the icy moon could have conditions suitable for life.

SPHEREx

Over a two-year planned mission, the SPHEREx Observatory will collect data on more than 300 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe.

The Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) project is developing a network of shoebox-size rovers that can work together to explore planetary surfaces as a team

Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration

The tiny wheeled rovers are designed work together to explore challenging terrain on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

SunRISE

SunRISE

The Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment, or SunRISE, is an array of six toaster-size CubeSats that will work together to study solar activity.

Lunar Trailblazer

Selected by NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program in 2019, Lunar Trailblazer will map the distribution of the different forms of water that exist on the surface of the Moon.

Artist's concept of VERITAS

VERITAS

VERITAS, short for Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography, And Spectroscopy, is a Venus orbiter designed to reveal how the paths of Venus and Earth diverged, and how Venus lost its potential as a habitable world.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, formerly the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST), is a NASA observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets and infrared astrophysics.

MAIA

Currently in development, MAIA will make radiometric and polarimetric measurements needed to characterize the sizes, compositions and quantities of particulate matter in air pollution.

Artist's concept of Interplanetary Nano-Spacecraft Pathfinder in Relevant Environment (INSPIRE)

INSPIRE

The Interplanetary NanoSpacecraft Pathfinder In Relevant Environment (INSPIRE) project will demonstrate the revolutionary capability of deep space CubeSats by placing a nanospacecraft in Earth-escape orbit.