Current Projects Already Launched
- Artemis — Europe's most advanced telecommunication satellite.
- Cluster II — a group of four probes studying the magnetosphere.
- COROT — a space telescope for detecting rocky exoplanets larger than Earth. Launched Dec 2006. A project led by the French space agency CNES.
- CryoSat-2 — a three-year radar altimetry mission launched on 8 April 2010 to determine variations in the thickness of the Earth’s continental ice sheets and marine ice cover; built to replace Cryosat after launch failure.
- Envisat — is the world's largest and most complex environmental satellite.
- ERS-2 — is an earth-observing satellite launched in 1995. It is the successor to ERS-1.
- GIOVE-A — Experimental satellite launched Dec 2005 as forerunner for the Galileo positioning system.
- GIOVE-B — the second Galileo in-orbit validation satellite launched on April 2008.
- GOCE — a mission designed to measure the Earth's gravity field, launched on March 2009.
- Herschel Space Observatory — a space telescope observing in the far-infrared.
- Hubble Space Telescope — built and operated in cooperation with NASA.
- INTEGRAL — is the first space observatory that can simultaneously observe objects in gamma rays, X-rays and visible light.
- Mars Express — a space probe to Mars.
- MetOp-A — is the first polar orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology. A satellite to study temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction, ozone and other trace gases on Earth.
- Planck — The next generation Cosmic Microwave Background explorer, after COBE & WMAP. launched in May 2009.
- Proba-1 — is the technology demonstration mini-satellite launched in 2001. It is the first satellite in the PROBA series
- Proba-2 — the second satellite in the PROBA series, launched in 2009 together with SMOS.
- Rosetta — a space probe launched in 2004 that will explore comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.
- SOHO — a space-based observatory to study the sun (together with NASA).
- SMOS — the second Earth Explorer mission launched on November 2009 designed to measure Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity.
- Venus Express — a space probe to Venus which was launched in Nov 2005 and arrived in orbit around Venus in April 2006.
- XMM-Newton — an X-ray observatory satellite which participates in the Cosmic Evolution Survey.
Read more about this topic: List Of Projects Of The European Space Agency
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