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COSI

COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) is a wide-field gamma-ray telescope that will study energetic phenomena in the Milky Way and beyond, including the creation and destruction of matter and antimatter and the final stages of the lives of stars.

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Dragonfly

Making multiple flights, the Dragonfly rotorcraft will explore a variety of locations on Saturn’s moon Titan.

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INCUS

INCUS (INvestigation of Convective UpdraftS) will include three SmallSats flying in tight coordination to study why convective storms, heavy precipitation, and clouds occur exactly when and where they form.

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JPSS-4

JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System) is the nation’s advanced series of polar-orbiting environmental satellites. NOAA’s JPSS-4 will be the next JPSS satellite to launch.

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MUSE

The Multi-slit Solar Explorer mission will help scientists understand the forces heating the Sun’s corona, the outermost region whose eruptions are the foundation of space weather, by observing the Sun’s extreme ultraviolet radiation and capturing the highest resolution images ever of this region.

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An illustration that shows the MUSE spacecraft on the top left. It is silver, a small cylinder on one side, that expands to a wider base. Protruding from the right and left are large blue panels. It is facing the Sun, shown in various patchwork wavelengths of UV light, including red, gold, purple, and blue.

NEO Surveyor

Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is the first space telescope specifically designed to hunt asteroids and comets that may be potential hazards to Earth.

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NEO Surveyor

Space Reactor-1 Freedom

Destined for Mars, Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom is humanity’s first fission-powered interplanetary spacecraft. It will demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion in deep space.

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Artist’s concept of NASA’s Space Reactor-1 Freedom spacecraft flying through space near Mars. The spacecraft features a silver central body with two purple-and-white checkered solar arrays on each side. Attached to the body are two gray radiator panels and a long metal boom. Mars appears prominently on the right side of the image.

Starburst

StarBurst is a SmallSat that will detect high-energy gamma rays from events such as the mergers of dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.

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TSIS-2

TSIS-2 will measure the Sun’s energy input to Earth. Unlike its predecessor which operates from the International Space Station (ISS), TSIS-2 will ride on a free-flying spacecraft.

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Artist's rendering of TSIS-2 in orbit.
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