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Origins Program

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NASA's Origins program is a decades-long study addressing the origins of the universe, various astronomical bodies, and life. The Origins program was started in the 1990s.

So far, it consists of the following missions:

  • ground based
  • Keck telescopes*
  • Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer*
  • Keck Interferometer*
  • airborne
  • Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)*
  • space based
  • Hubble Space Telescope (HST)* e
  • Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) - completed
  • Spitzer Space Telescope (SST)*
  • Kepler Space Observatory*
  • Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) - cancelled
  • Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) - cancelled
  • James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - in development
  • Single Aperture Far Infrared Observatory (SAFIR)
  • Large UV/Optical Telescope
  • Life Finder
  • Planet Imager

    • Missions marked with * are operational.

    References

    Origins Program Wikipedia
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