Space Missions

Space Missions

	Mission Name	Description
	AGILE	AGILE is devoted to gamma-ray astrophysics and it is a first and unique combination of a gamma-ray (AGILE-GRID) and a hard X-ray (SuperAGILE) instrument, for the simultaneous detection and imaging of photons in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV and in the 18 - 60 keV energy ranges
	NuSTAR	NuSTAR is the first focusing high-energy X-ray mission (3-80 keV) in orbit, opening the hard X-ray sky for sensitive study for the first time.
	Swift	Swift is mission dedicated to the observations of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)
	Hermes	HERMES is a mission concept which aims to detect and locate bright high-energy transients such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), that are candidate electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves.
	BeppoSAX	BeppoSAX is an X-ray astronomy satellite, whose main scientific characteristic is the wide spectral coverage, ranging from 0.1 to over 200 keV
	IXPE	IXPE is a pointing telescope exploiting the polarization state of the X-ray photons emitted by violent and dense astronomical objects, such as neutron stars and pulsar wind nebulae, as well as stellar and supermassive black holes.
	Planck	Planck is a mission to observe the first light in the Universe designed to image the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the Cosmic Background Radiation Field over the whole sky
	Gaia	Gaia provides high-accuracy astrometry, measuring the 3D position of a star and its movement across the sky. The astrometric data are also enriched by spectroscopic and spectrophotometric data.
	Herschel	Herschel is a mission conceived to provide spectroscopic and photometric observations at far infrared and sub-millimetre wavelengths
	Fermi	The Fermi satellite studies energetic gamma-rays, observing physical processes far beyond the capabilities of earthbound laboratories, and opening a wide energy window on the universe
	Euclid	Euclid is a space survey mission dedicated to investigate the origin of the accelerating expansion of the Universe and the nature of dark energy, dark matter and gravity.
	Olimpo	OLIMPO is a long-duration balloon mission designed to study clusters of galaxies through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
	Plato	PLATO's main scientific objective of the mission is the discovery and characterization of extrasolar planetary systems
	Cheops	Cheops' main scientific objective is the study of the structure of exoplanets smaller than Saturn, orbiting bright stars

	Mission Name	Description
	Chang'e	Chang'e is the Chinese lunar exploration program
	Dawn	Dawn is a mission designed to study the role of size and water in the evolution of the planets, explorint Vesta and Ceres, the most massive of the protoplanets
	LICIACube	LICIACube is a space mission part of the NASA DART mission, whose goal is the validation of the Kinetic Impact technique for Planetary Defense purposes.
	Rosetta	Rosetta's final destination is the periodic comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

	Mission Name	Description
	AMS	AMS is a particle physics detector, designed to operate as an external module on the International Space Station (ISS) to studu the universe and its origin by searching for antimatter and dark matter while performing precision measurements of cosmic rays composition and flux.
	Pamela	The PAMELA spectrometer is a satellite-borne experiments designed for the precise measurement of charged cosmic rays

	Mission Name	Description
	MINI-EUSO	Mini-EUSO is a UV telescope observing the Earth from the International Space Station whose scientific objectives of the mission range from the search for Extensive Air Showers (EAS) up to the study of atmospheric phenomena such as Transient Luminous Events (TLEs), meteors and meteoroids.
	CSES-Limadou	CSES scientific space missions are dedicated to monitoring electromagnetic field and waves, plasma and particle perturbations of the atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere induced by natural sources and anthropocentric emitters and to study their correlations with the occurrence of seismic events.

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