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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

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