Proposed spacecraft Proposed spacecraft The Aurora Programme of the European Space Agency is an ambitious programme of manned and unmanned exploration of the Solar system, and particularly Mars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aurora Programme"
Champollion was a planned cometary rendezvous and landing spacecraft. It was named after Jean-François Champollion, a French Egyptologist known for studying the Rosetta stone. ...more on Wikipedia about "Champollion (spacecraft)"
The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) was a cancelled plan for a NASA led exploratory mission designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, that planned to send a spacecraft to encounter an asteroid, and then to rendezvous with a comet and fly alongside it for nearly three years. The project was eventually canceled when it went over budget; most of the money still left was redirected to its twin spacecraft, Cassini-Huygens, destined for Saturn, so it could survive Congressional budget cutbacks. Most of CRAF's scientific objectives were later accomplished by a series of smaller NASA spacecraft, and the rest will be accomplished by ESA's flagship Rosetta mission. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby"
COROT (COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) is a space mission approved and led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency. The primary objective of Corot will be to search for extrasolar planets, particularly those of large terrestrial size. It is due to be launched in October, 2006 and will be the first mission of its kind. ...more on Wikipedia about "Corot (space mission)"
Darwin is a proposed European Space Agency (ESA) mission designed to directly detect Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars, and search for evidence of life on these planets. The launch date will be at or after 2014. The current design envisions six telescopes, each 1.5 meters diameter, flying in formation. In addition, two auxiliary spacecraft would be needed, one to combine the light from the six telescopes and measure the resulting optical signal, and one to handle communications with Earth. As well as studying extrasolar planets, the instrument will probably have a general purpose imaging mode which will produce very high resolution (i.e. milliarcsecond) infrared images, allowing detailed study of a variety of astrophysical processes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Darwin (ESA)"
The Echolance is a type of spacecraft designed in 1949 by a Dr. Robert Duncan-Enzmann. It is a presumably feasible concept, but little else is available on the subject. ...more on Wikipedia about "Echolance"
ExoMars is a planned Mars rover to be launched in 2011 to arrive in 2013 as part of European Space Agency's Aurora programme as a Flagship mission. As this mission is still in the early planning stages, the information here and on ESA's website is preliminary. ...more on Wikipedia about "ExoMars"
FalconSAT is the name of the United States Air Force Academy's small satellite engineering program. Satellites are designed, built, tested, and operated by Academy cadets. The project is administered by the USAFA Space Systems Research Center under the direction of the Department of Astronautics. Most of the cadets who work on the project are pursuing a bachelor of science degree in astronautical engineering, although students from other disciplines (typically electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or computer science) join the project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Falconsat"
Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME) was a proposed space telescope, planned for launch in 2004, designed to obtain highly precise position and brightness measurements of 40 million stars. This database was to allow astronomers to accurately determine the distance to all of the stars on this side of the Milky Way galaxy, detect large planets and planetary systems around stars within 1,000 light years of the Sun, and measure the amount of dark matter in the galaxy from its influence on stellar motions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Full-Sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer"
The Gaia satellite is an astrometry space mission, and a successor to the ESA Hipparcos mission. It was included within the context of the ESA's Horizon 2000 Plus long-term scientific programme in 2000. It is expected to be launched by the ESA in the second half of 2011, and will be operated in a Lissajous-type orbit around at the second ...more on Wikipedia about "Gaia probe"
Hermes was a proposed mini-shuttle designed by the European Space Agency that externally had a lot of similarities with the US X-20. The program was greenlit by the French government in 1978, but the project officially started in November 1987, scheduled for service in 1995, but was finally terminated in 1993 after changes in the financial and political landscape had removed the arguments for Hermes. No Hermes shuttles were ever built. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hermes (shuttle)"
Hopper was a proposed European Space Agency orbital craft advanced concept. The advanced studies were somewhat supported by the EADS Phoenix flight test project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hopper (spacecraft)"
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned orbital infrared observatory, intended (in part) to replace the aging Hubble Space Telescope. It will be jointly constructed and operated by CSA, ESA and NASA. Formerly called the Next Generation Space Telescope (or NGST), it was renamed after NASA's second administrator, James E. Webb, in 2002. The telescope's launch is planned for no earlier than June 2013. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Webb Space Telescope"
Juno is a NASA mission to Jupiter planned to cost roughly $700 million and scheduled to launch by June 30, 2010. The spacecraft will be placed in a polar orbit in order to study the planet's magnetic field. Juno will also be searching for evidence that Jupiter has a rocky core, the amount of water present within the atmosphere, and Jupiter's wind (which can reach speeds of 600 km/h). ...more on Wikipedia about "Juno (spacecraft)" This text is made on www.shortopedia.com
The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) was a proposed spacecraft designed to explore the icy moons of Jupiter. The main target was Europa, the suspected ocean of which is one of the places where very simple alien life is a possibility in our solar system. Ganymede and Callisto, which are now thought to have liquid, salty oceans beneath their icy surfaces, were also targets of interest for the probe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter"
Kliper (Клипер, also referred to as Clipper) is a spacecraft proposed in 2004 by Russian rocket and space company RKK Energia. Designed primarily to replace the Soyuz spacecraft, it is a partly reusable spaceplane that glides into the atmosphere at an angle that produces much less acceleration on the human occupants than the current Soyuz. Kliper is currently proposed in two versions: as a lifting body design and as a spaceplane with small wings. The craft can carry up to six people and can be used for ferry services between earth and the International Space Station. It has also (as of September 28 2005) been declared that it will be used on trans-lunar missions (though with no plans for landings) and may at least theoretically be used on Mars exploration. The primary focus for its development was to reduce costs for manned space flights by using the reusable spaceship approach and to replace the aging Soyuz capsule design. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kliper"
The LISA is the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna experiment. It will be launched in 2015 or later. ...more on Wikipedia about "LISA (astronomy)"
LISA Pathfinder is the revised name for SMART-2, an ESA space probe to be launched in 2009. SMART stands for Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology. The aim of the LISA Pathfinder is to test technologies needed for the NASA/ESA mission LISA, which will be a gravitational wave detector. ...more on Wikipedia about "LISA Pathfinder"
MOOSE, originally an acronym for Man Out Of Space Easiest and later changed to the more professional-sounding Manned Orbital Operations Safety Equipment, was a proposed emergency "bail-out" system capable of bringing a single astronaut safely down from Earth orbit to the planet's surface. ...more on Wikipedia about "MOOSE"
The Pluto Kuiper Express mission, originally designated the Pluto Fast Flyby, was designed to fly by and make studies of the planet Pluto and its satellite Charon in 2012 and fly on to encounter one or more of the large bodies in the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Pluto. It was cancelled for budgetary reasons, and a new mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt called New Horizons replaced it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pluto Kuiper Express"
Project Orion was the first engineering design study of spacecraft powered by nuclear pulse propulsion, an idea first proposed by Stanislaw Ulam in 1947. The project, initiated in the 1950's, was led by a team of engineers and physicists from General Atomics and included well known academics such as Physicist Theodore Taylor. Freeman Dyson, the physicist and science fiction writer, took a year away from his university studies in England to lead the project at Ted Taylor's request. The first such thinktank of its kind since the Manhattan Project, Project Orion is recalled by many of its team as representing the best years of their lives. In many respects, Orion may be the closest mankind has ever come to large-scale space travel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Project Orion"
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Roton was a concept developed in the late 1990s as a fully reusable Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) manned spacecraft. Roton was intended to reduce costs of launching payloads into low earth orbit by a factor of ten. Gary Hudson championed the design and formed the startup Rotary Rocket, Inc (rotaryrocket.com), headquartered in a 45,000-square-foot facility at Mojave Airport. A full-scale test vehicle made three hover flights in 1999, but the company ran out of funds and closed its doors in early 2001. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rotary Rocket"
The Solar Orbiter is a Sun-observing satellite, in development by the European Space Agency. It is to be launched on a Soyuz-ST Fregat 2-1B from the Guiana space centre in Kourou, French Guiana in October 2013. It will perform close observations of the polar regions of the Sun, which is difficult to do from Earth. The Solar Orbiter will make observations of the Sun from distances as close as 45 solar radii, or 0.21 AU. It is predicted that the images obtained will be up to ten times as sharp as any images that can be taken today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Solar Orbiter"
The Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), also called "SIM PlanetQuest," is a NASA instrument expected to be launched in 2011. Once in orbit, scientists expect SIM to be able to make very accurate astrometric observations of distant stars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space Interferometry Mission"
The Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) is a proposed NASA telescope system capable of detecting extrasolar terrestrial planets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Terrestrial Planet Finder" shortopedia Dreamteam. Proposed_spacecraft
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