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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, formerly the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST), is a NASA observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets and infrared astrophysics. .
Published: May 28, 2020
FINESSE is the first mission dedicated to the spectral characterization of the rapidly growing number of newly discovered worlds. .
Published: Jan. 24, 2018
ASTERIA (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics) was a technology demonstration and opportunistic science mission to conduct astrophysical measurements using a CubeSat. .
Launch date: Aug. 14, 2017
The Disturbance Reduction System, or DRS, designed as part of the Space Technology 7 project, was an experimental system for measuring gravitational waves in space, which are thought to contain important data about the history of the universe. .
Launch date: Dec. 3, 2015
The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, is a ground-based instrument connecting two 8-meter class telescopes on Mount Graham in Arizona to form the largest single-mount telescope in the world. .
Launch date: Dec. 6, 2010
Kepler was a space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy in search of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system. .
Launch date: March 6, 2009
Dawn orbited the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres as part of its mission to characterize the conditions and processes that shaped our solar system. .
Launch date: Sept. 27, 2007
The Keck Interferometer was a ground-based instrument that combined the light from the twin Keck telescopes to create an instrument equal in power to an 85-meter telescope that could detect and study stars and planets beyond our solar system. .
Launch date: March 12, 2001