New Millennium Program

NMP missions

Missions flown

• Deep Space 1 – standalone spacecraft testing solar electric propulsion, autonomous operation etc.; successful mission 1998-2001 including comet and asteroid encounters
• Deep Space 2 – Mars surface penetrators flown with Mars Polar Lander in 1999;
• Earth Observing 1 –
• Space Technology 5 – a cluster of three satellites investigating the Earth's magnetosphere
• Space Technology 6 – Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment aboard Earth Observing 1 ; Inertial Stellar Compass
• Space Technology 7 – disturbance reduction technology to support gravitational wave observations;. Launched on LISA Pathfinder, 12/3/15

  Cancelled missions

• Deep Space 3/Space Technology 3 – would have been a spaceborne stellar interferometer.
• Deep Space 4/Space Technology 4 – planned for launch in 2003 to orbit and land on comet Tempel 1 and return a sample in 2010
• Earth Observing 2 – a plan to use space-based lidars to measure atmospheric winds
• Earth Observing 3 – Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer originally planned for 2005-6 launch
• Space Technology 8 – originally planned for 2009 launch, the satellite is designed, developed and manufacture by Orbital Sciences Corporation
• Space Technology 9 – a NASA proposal related to precision landing and hazard avoidance for future planetary lander vehicles.