Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Interplanetary Space Probes
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Chandrayaan-1
Launch date: 22 October 2008
Launch vehicle: PSLV-XL C11
Payloads: Orbiter
Orbital insertion: 8 November 2008
ISRO chairman: G. Madhavan Nair
Approximate cost: INR 386 crore (USD 56 million)
Mangalyaan-1 (Mars Orbiter Mission)
Launch date: 5 November 2013
Launch vehicle: PSLV-XL C25
Payloads: Orbiter
Orbital insertion: 24 September 2014
ISRO chairman: K. Radhakrishnan
Approximate cost: INR 450 crore (USD 73 million)
Chandrayaan-2
Launch date: 22 July 2019
Launch vehicle: GSLV Mk III M1
Payloads: Orbiter, Vikram lander, Pragyan rover
Orbital insertion: 20 August 2019 (expected)
Moon landing: 7 September 2019 (expected)
ISRO chairman: K. Sivan
Approximate cost: INR 978 crore (USD 141 million)
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Aditya-L1
Launch date: 2022
Launch vehicle: PSLV
Payloads: Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT), Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX), Plasma Analyser Package for Aditya (PAPA), Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS), High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS), Magnetometer
Orbital insertion: 2022
ISRO chairman: K. Sivan
Approximate cost: INR 378 crore (USD 50 million)
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Space Telescopes
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AstroSat
Launch date: 28 September 2015
Launch vehicle: PSLV-C30
Payloads: Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT), Soft X-ray imaging Telescope (SXT), Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC), Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI), Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM), Charged Particle Monitor (CPM)
Orbit: Geocentric Near-equatorial
Observing spectrum — Hard X-ray, Soft X-ray, Far-Ultraviolet, Near-Ultraviolet, Visible (VBG)
First light: 12 October 2015
ISRO chairman: A. S. Kiran Kumar
Approximate cost: INR 180 crore (USD 28 million)
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X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat)
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Launch date: 2002
Launch vehicle: SSLV
Payloads: Polarimeter Instrument in X-rays (POLIX), X-ray Spectroscopy and Timing (XSPECT)
Orbit: Geocentric Low-Earth
Observing spectrum — Hard X-ray, Soft X-ray
First light:
ISRO chairman: K. Sivan
Approximate cost: INR 10 crore (USD 1.4 million)
National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA)
Interplanetary Space Probes
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Pioneer 10
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Rocket — Atlas SLV-3C Centaur-D Star-37E
Launch mass — 258.8 kg
Power (at launch) — 155 W
Launch date — March 2, 1972
Jupiter flyby — December 3, 1973
Last contact — January 23, 2003
Pioneer 11
Rocket — Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1A Star-37E
Launch mass — 259 kg
Power (at launch) — 155 W
Launch date — April 6, 1973
Jupiter flyby — December 3, 1974
Saturn flyby — September 1, 1979
Last contact — September 30, 1995
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Voyager 2
Rocket — Titan IIIE
Launch mass — 825.5 kg
Power (at launch) — 420 W
Launch date — August 20, 1977
Jupiter flyby — July 9, 1979
Saturn flyby — August 25, 1981
Uranus — January 24, 1986
Neptune — August 25, 1989
Last contact — Still active
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Voyager 1
Rocket — Titan IIIE
Launch mass — 825.5 kg
Power (at launch) — 420 W
Launch date — September 5, 1977
Jupiter flyby — March 5, 1979
Saturn flyby — November 12, 1980
Titan flyby — November 12, 1980
Last contact — Still active
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New Horizons
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Rocket — Atlas V (551) AV-010
Launch mass — 478 kg
Power (at launch) — 228 W
Launch date — January 19, 2006
Jupiter flyby — February 28, 2007
Pluto flyby — July 14, 2015
Last contact — Still active
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Viking 1
Rocket — Titan IIIE/Centaur
Launch mass — 3530 kg
Power — 620 + 70 W
Launch date — August 20, 1975
Mars orbit insertion — June 19, 1976
Mars landing date — July 20, 1976
Approximate cost: USD 500 million
Last contact — November 11, 1982
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Viking 2
Rocket — Titan IIIE/Centaur
Launch mass — 3530 kg
Power — 620 + 70 W
Launch date — September 9, 1975
Mars orbit insertion — August 7, 1976
Mars landing date — September 3, 1976
Approximate cost: USD 500 million
Last contact — April 12, 1980
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Deep Impact
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Rocket — Delta II 7925
Launch mass — 601 (spacecraft) + 372 (impactor) = 973 kg
Power (spacecraft) — 92 W
Launch date — January 12, 2005
Comet Tempel 1 flyby — July 4, 2005
Comet Tempel 1 impact — July 4, 2005
Comet Hartley 2 flyby — November 4, 2010
Approximate cost: USD 850 million
Last contact — August 8, 2013
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Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
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Rocket — Atlas V 401
Launch mass — 3100 kg
Power (at launch) — 1450 W
Launch date — February 11, 2010
Geosynchronous orbit insertion — April 11, 2010
Approximate cost: USD 850 million
Last contact — Still active
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Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
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Rocket — Delta IV Heavy / Star-48BV
Launch mass — 685 kg
Power (at launch) — 343 W
Launch date — August 12, 2018
Venus flyby — October 3, 2018 / December 26, 2019 / July 11, 2020 / February 20, 2021 / October 16, 2021
Solar corona entry: April 29, 2021
Approximate cost: USD 1.5 billion
Last contact — Still active
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Space Telescopes
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Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
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Rocket — Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31)
Launch mass — 11,110 kg
Power (at launch) — 2800 W
Launch date — April 24, 1990
Deployment date — April 25, 1990
Entered service — May 20, 1990
Orbit — Geocentric Low-Earth
Observing spectrum — Ultraviolet, Visible, Near-Infrared
First servicing — December 5-9, 1993 (STS-61)
Second servicing — February 14-18, 1997 (STS-82)
Third servicing — December 22-25, 1999 (STS-103)
Fourth servicing — March 4-8, 2002 (STS-109)
Fifth servicing — May 14-18, 2009 (STS-125)
Approximate cost (at launch) — USD 4.7 billion (2010 dollar value)
Cumulative cost (including servicing) — USD 11.3 billion (2010 dollar value)
Last contact — Still active
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Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)
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Rocket — Delta II 7920-10 (Delta 230)
Launch mass — 330 kg
Power (at launch) — 800 W
Launch date — December 30, 1995
Payloads — All-Sky Monitor (ASM), High Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE), Proportional Counter Array (PCA)
Orbit — Geocentric Low-Earth
Observing spectrum — Soft X-ray, Hard X-Ray
Approximate cost — USD 350 million
End of operation — January 12, 2012
Last contact — April 30, 2018
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Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO)
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Rocket — Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-93)
Launch mass — 5,860 kg
Launch date — July 23, 1999
Payloads — High Resolution Camera (HRC), Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS), High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS)
Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS)
Orbit — Geocentric Highly elliptical
Observing spectrum — Soft X-ray, Hard X-Ray
Approximate cost — USD 1.65 billion
Last contact — Still active
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Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO)
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Rocket — Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-37)
Launch mass — 5,860 kg
Launch date — April 5, 1991
Payloads — Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE), Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE), Imaging Compton Telescope (COMPTEL), Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET)
Orbit — Geocentric Low-Earth
Observing spectrum — Hard X-Ray, Gamma Ray
Approximate cost — USD 617 million
Last contact — June 4, 2000​
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Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)
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Rocket — Delta II 7920H
Launch mass — 950 kg
Power (at launch) — 427 W
Launch date — August 25, 2003
Entered service — December 18, 2003
Orbit — Heliocentric Earth-trailing
Observing spectrum — Mid-Infrared, Far-Infrared
Approximate cost — USD 776 million
Last contact — January 30, 2020
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Kepler Space Telescope (KST)
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Rocket — Delta II (7925-10L)
Launch mass — 1,052.4 kg
Power (at launch) — 1100 W
Launch date — March 7, 2009
Orbit — Heliocentric Earth-trailing
First light — April 8, 2009
Entered service — May 12, 2009
Second light (K2) — December 2013
Observing spectrum — Visible, Near-Infrared
Approximate cost — USD 550 million
Last contact — November 15, 2018
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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
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Rocket — Falcon 9 Block 4 (B1045.1)
Launch mass — 362 kg
Power (at launch) — 530 W
Launch date — April 18, 2018
Orbit — Geocentric Highly elliptical
First light — August 7, 2018
Entered service — July 18, 2018
Observing spectrum — Visible (OR), Near-Infrared
Approximate cost — USD 87 million
Last contact — Still active
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Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
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Rocket — Falcon 9, B1061.5
Launch mass — 330 kg
Launch date — December 9, 2021
Orbit — Geocentric Low-Earth
Observing spectrum — Soft X-ray
Approximate cost — USD 50 million
Last contact — Still active
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
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Rocket — Ariane 5 ECA (VA256)
Launch mass — 6161.4 kg
Power (at launch) — 2000 W
Launch date — December 25, 2021
Sunshield deployment — Devember 29, 2021 - January 4, 2022
Mirror deployment — January 5, 2022 - January 8, 2022
Entered service —
Orbit — L2 Halo Orbit
Observing spectrum — Visible (OR), Near-Infrared, Mid-Infrared
Approximate cost — USD 10 billion
Last contact — Still active