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.[1]
So far, it consists of the following missions:
- Hubble Space Telescope*
- Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer*
- Spitzer Space Telescope*
- Keck telescopes*
- Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer*
- Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
- Keck interferometer*
- Kepler Space Observatory*
- Space Interferometry Mission
- Terrestrial Planet Finder
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Single Aperture Far Infrared Observatory
- Large UV/Optical Telescope
- Life Finder
- Planet Imager
Missions marked with * are operational.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- [www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fact_sheets/origins.pdf Origins Program - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]
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