New Millennium Program
New Millennium Program(NMP) was aNASAproject with focus on engineering validation of new technologies for space applications. Funding for the program was eliminated from the FY2009 budget by the110th United States Congress,effectively leading to its cancellation.[1]
The spacecraft in the New Millennium Program were originally named "Deep Space" (for missions demonstrating technology for planetary missions) and "Earth Observing" (for missions demonstrating technology for Earth orbiting missions). With a refocussing of the program in 2000, the Deep Space series was renamed "Space Technology".
NMP missions[edit]
Missions flown[edit]
- Deep Space 1– standalone spacecraft testingsolar electric propulsion,autonomous operation etc.; successful mission 1998-2001 including comet and asteroid encounters
- Deep Space 2– Mars surface penetrators flown withMars Polar Landerin 1999; (failed)
- Earth Observing 1(EO-1) – (launched 2000)[2]
- Space Technology 5– a cluster of three satellites investigating the Earth'smagnetosphere(launched 2006)
- Space Technology 6– Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (autonomy) aboard Earth Observing 1 (see above);Inertial Stellar Compass(navigation) (launched)
- Space Technology 7– disturbance reduction technology to supportgravitational waveobservations; (transferred to Physics of the Cosmos[3]). Launched on theEuropean Space Agency'sLISA Pathfinderon 3 December 2015.[4]
Cancelled missions[edit]
- Deep Space 3/Space Technology 3(StarLight) – would have been a spaceborne stellar interferometer.
- Deep Space 4/Space Technology 4(Champollion) – planned for launch in 2003 to orbit and land on cometTempel 1and return a sample in 2010 (cancelled 1999)
- Earth Observing 2– a plan to use space-basedlidarto measure atmospheric winds (cancelled 1998)
- Earth Observing 3 (GIFTS)–GeostationaryImagingFourier Transform Spectrometeroriginally planned for 2005-6 launch (cancelled)
- Space Technology 8[5]– originally planned for 2009 launch, the satellite is designed, developed and manufacture byOrbital Sciences Corporation(cancelled)[6]
- Space Technology 9– a NASA proposal related to precision landing and hazard avoidance for future planetary lander vehicles.[7]
References[edit]
- ^Shiga, David (5 February 2008)."NASA calls for ambitious outer solar system mission".New Scientist.Retrieved16 April2009.
- ^"NASA's Earth Observing Technology Satellite Proves a Success"(Press release). Goddard Space Flight Center. 24 June 2002. Archived fromthe originalon 14 April 2009.Retrieved16 April2009.
- ^"Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS)".pcos.gsfc.nasa.gov.Retrieved5 January2018.
- ^"Mission To Gravitational Waves: Disturbance Reduction System".NASA JPL.
- ^H. Abakians,et al., "NASA's New Millennium ST-8 Project"abstract
- ^Keyser, Sigurd De (4 December 2005)."Orbital Selected To Build And Launch NASA's New Millennium Space Technology 8 Satellite".Space Race News.The Space Fellowship. Archived fromthe originalon 7 August 2011.Retrieved16 April2009.
- ^Nelson, Robert M. (December 2007).NASA's New Millennium ST9 TRGS Mission(Report).
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