Programs
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Global Positioning System
Ongoing
United States Space Force · Navigation Constellation · Started
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global…
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Ongoing
SpaceX · Human Spaceflight · Started
The Polaris program is a private spaceflight program organized by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman.
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Ongoing
SpaceX · Technology · Started
The SpaceX Starship is a fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX since 2012, as a self-funded private spaceflight project. The second stage of the Starship — is designed as a…
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Ongoing
SpaceX · Communication Constellation · Started
Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by American aerospace company SpaceX
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Ended
Soviet Space Program · Exploration · Started – 22 Aug 1976
The Luna program was a series of robotic spacecraft missions sent to the Moon by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976. The program accomplished many firsts in space exploration, including first flyby of the Moon…
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Ended
Soviet Space Program · Human Spaceflight · Started – 16 Jul 1986
The Salyut programme was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet Union. It involved a series of four crewed scientific research space stations and two crewed military reconnaissance space stations…
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Ended
Soviet Space Program · Human Spaceflight · Started – 16 Mar 1966
The Voskhod programme was the second Soviet human spaceflight project. Two one-day crewed missions were flown using the Voskhod spacecraft and rocket, one in 1964 and one in 1965, and two dogs flew on a 22-day mission…
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Ended
Soviet Space Program · Human Spaceflight · Started – 19 Jun 1963
The Vostok programme was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first Soviet citizens into low Earth orbit and return them safely. Competing with the United States Project Mercury, it succeeded in placing the…
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Ongoing
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) · Navigation Constellation · Started
GLONASS (ГЛОНАСС, IPA: [ɡɫɐˈnas]; Russian: Глобальная навигационная спутниковая система, tr. Global'naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema, lit. 'Global Navigation Satellite System') is a Russian satellite navigation…
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Ended
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) · Human Spaceflight · Started – 23 Mar 2001
Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996.
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Ongoing
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) · Human Spaceflight · Started
The Soyuz programme is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon…
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Ended
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Human Spaceflight · Started – 19 Dec 1972
The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
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Ongoing
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Human Spaceflight · Started
The Artemis program is a US government-funded crewed spaceflight program that has the goal of landing "the first woman and the next man" on the Moon, specifically at the lunar south pole region.
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Ongoing
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Human Spaceflight · Started
Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion…
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Ongoing
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Exploration · Started
The Discovery Program is a series of Solar System exploration missions funded by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through its Planetary Missions Program Office. The cost of each mission is…
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Ended
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Human Spaceflight · Started – 15 Nov 1966
Project Gemini was NASA's second human spaceflight program. Conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, Gemini started in 1961 and concluded in 1966.
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Ongoing
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Earth Observation · Started
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), operated by the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service…
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Ongoing
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Earth Observation · Started
The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program.
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Ended
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Human Spaceflight · Started – 16 May 1963
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.
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Ongoing
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Exploration · Started
NASA's large strategic science missions or large strategic missions, formerly known as Flagship missions or Flagship-class missions, are the costliest and most capable NASA science spacecraft. Flagship missions exist…
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