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Spacecraft Guide has information and pictures manned spacecraft, earth satellites, telescopes, planetary probes and landers and other space craft.

BepiColombo

BepiColombo is a joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese mission to Planet Mercury for exploration. BepiColombo is ESA's first mission to Mercury. It is...

Parker Solar Probe

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be the first-ever mission to "touch" the Sun. It will swoop closer to the Sun’s surface than any spacecraft before it. It was...

Boeing CST-100

Boeing CST-100 crew space transportation system consists of a crew module and service module with capacity for up to seven crew members. The spacecraft...

Mars Insight Lander

Mars Insight Lander is a NASA Mars mission. InSight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. The spacecraft is part of the...

MAVEN

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is NASA's first mission dedicated to studying the red planet's upper atmosphere. It was launched on 18 November...

Deep Impact – First Mission to Impact on a Comet

Deep Impact was the first mission to impact on a comet. NASA's Deep Impact Spacecraft was launched on 12th January 2005 aboard a Delta...

Aim Spacecraft – Studying Clouds on Earth

NASA's AIM spacecraft is studying the highest and most mysterious clouds on Earth. AIM stands for 'Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere'. It was...

Voyager 2

Voyager 2 was part of the Voyager program to study the outer planets. Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, two weeks earlier...

Plato – Europe’s Planet Hunting Telescope

Plato is Europe's Planet Hunting Telescope mission. Plato spacecraft is a space-based observatory to search for planets orbiting alien stars. To be launched in...

Herschel Space Observatory

Herschel Space Observatory was a space based telescope that was studying the Universe by the light of the far-infrared and submillimeter portions of the...