Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere AIM's two-year mission is to study Polar Mesospheric Clouds, the Earth’s highest clouds, which form an icy membrane.

ESA/NASA Mission The four Cluster spacecraft carry out 3D measurements in the Earth's Magnetosphere.

COROT is a CNES project with ESA participation. The other major partners in this mission are Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany and Spain.

Dawn is to become the first spacecraft ever planned to orbit two different bodies after leaving Earth, will orbit Vesta and Ceres, two of the largest asteroids in the solar system.

Mapping the history of star formation in the universe.

ESA's infrared space telescope launch in 2008

The International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (Integral) is the most sensitive gamma-ray observatory ever launched.

The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, mission to look for water on the moon will be a 'secondary payload spacecraft.

The MESSENGER mission, spacecraft, and science instruments are focused on answering six key outstanding questions that will allow us to better understand Mercury as a planet.

New Horizons began its journey across the solar system to conduct flyby studies of Pluto and its moon.

Planck will make the most accurate maps yet of the microwave background radiation that fills space. It will be sensitive to temperature variations of a few millionths of a degree

Rosetta will orbit comet 67P and accompany it on its journey to the Sun.

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy--or SOFIA--is an airborne observatory that will complement the Hubble, Spitzer, Herschel and James Webb space telescopes

Venus Express is a follow on from the Mars Express mission. Many of the instruments on the mission are simply upgraded versions of those on the Mars Express platform.

The Mirror Modules on this x-ray observatory allow XMM-Newton to detect millions of sources, far more than any previous X-ray mission