Mission History
Below is a listing of previous Astrotech Space Operations missions.
ICESat is the benchmark Earth Observing System mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics. CHIPSat is a University-Class Explorer (UNEX) mission funded by NASA.
The Air Force Coriolis mission will fly the Navy Windsat microwave polarimetric radiometer and Air Force Solar Mass Ejection Imager in a low Earth, sun synchronous orbit.
The W5 fixed widebeam will offer unparalleled Ku-band connectivity stretching from Western Europe through the Middle East and Central Asia to Southern Asia.
Hispasat-1D, along with Hispasat-1C (launched 2000) offers pan-European and pan-American multi-area coverage. This coverage can extend to certain areas of North Africa. The flexibility offered by the satellite's design will allow users to benefit from intercontinental links between Europe and the Americas.
Hotbird-6 delivers digital television and radio channels to satellite and cable homes in Europe, North Africa and large parts of the Middle East, reinforcing one of the largest broadcasting systems in Europe.
Galaxy IIIC will provide Internet, video, audio and data services to the United States and Latin America.
EchoStar 7 will replace EchoStar 4, which has experienced a series of anomalies impacting its performance.
Iridium IS-1 is one satellite in the Iridium satellite constellation. The large group of satellites provides voice and data coverage to satellite phones, pagers and integrated transceivers over Earth's entire surface.
Digital images taken from orbit by the QuickBird-2 satellite are expected to rival aerial photography in terms of both cost and possible economic and scientific applications.
The OrbView-4 satellite is a high-resolution and hyperspectral imaging satellite. QuickTOMS is an ozone mapping instrument designed for NASA.
The Genesis spacecraft was a NASA sample return probe which collected a sample of solar wind and returned it to Earth for analysis.
The GOES I-M satellites are the primary element of U.S. weather monitoring and forecast operations and are a key component of NOAA's National Weather Service operations and modernization program.
NASA's Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) will scan the sky for over two years, gathering information on the faint cosmic glow.
ICO F-2 will provide wireless messaging, data transfer, telephone and Internet connectivity using small hand-held devices that can be used worldwide.
GeoLITE is an advanced technology demonstration satellite with a laser communications experiment and an operational UHF communications mission.
XM-1 will join another XM satellite in orbit and the two satellites will blanket the entire lower 48 states, working in tandem to relay XM Satellite Radio's programming to special receiving radios installed in subscribers' cars and trucks and portable units that you can take anywhere.
NASA's robotic spacecraft will use spectrometers and electronic imagers to detect evidence of past or present water and volcanic activity on Mars. It is hoped that the data Odyssey obtains will help answer the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars.
The XM-2 satellite is designed to provide state-of-the-art digital audio radio programming directly to cars, homes and portable radios coast to coast.
GPS IIR-7 will join 28 other operational GPS satellites now on orbit. This satellite will improve global coverage and increase the overall performance of the GPS constellation.
The Earth Observing-1 Mission (EO-1) satellite is part of NASA's New Millennium Program (NMP). SAC-C is part of the AM Constellation together with NASA's Landsat 7, TERRA and EO-1.
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