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<h2 id="nmp-missions">NMP missions</h2> <h3>Missions flown</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Deep_Space_1/tj06PVJu">Deep Space 1</a> – standalone spacecraft testing <a href="/facts/Solar_electric_propulsion/UHLjgpPq">solar electric propulsion</a>, autonomous operation etc.; successful mission 1998-2001 including comet and asteroid encounters</li> <li><a href="/facts/Deep_Space_2/yLxDWzT1">Deep Space 2</a> – Mars surface penetrators flown with <a href="/facts/Mars_Polar_Lander/UCARCj7C">Mars Polar Lander</a> in 1999; (failed)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Earth_Observing_1/jC6oFWpI">Earth Observing 1</a> (EO-1) – (launched 2000)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Space_Technology_5/Hlg6BtKs">Space Technology 5</a> – a cluster of three satellites investigating the Earth's <a href="/facts/Magnetosphere/BXzgPoPy">magnetosphere</a> (launched 2006)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Space_Technology_6/l66NFrHx">Space Technology 6</a> – Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (autonomy) aboard Earth Observing 1 (see above); <a href="/facts/Inertial_Stellar_Compass/8FgrLsXK">Inertial Stellar Compass</a> (navigation) (launched)</li> <li>Space Technology 7 – disturbance reduction technology to support <a href="/facts/Gravitational_wave/4XWN3NtG">gravitational wave</a> observations; (transferred to Physics of the Cosmos<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>). Launched on the <a href="/facts/European_Space_Agency/L8YRNV0C">European Space Agency</a>'s <a href="/facts/LISA_Pathfinder/QEM75nCt">LISA Pathfinder</a> on 3 December 2015.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>Cancelled missions</h3> <ul><li>Deep Space 3/Space Technology 3 (StarLight) – would have been a spaceborne stellar interferometer.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Deep_Space_4/IHV8IezN">Deep Space 4</a>/<a href="/facts/Space_Technology_4/IHV8IezN">Space Technology 4</a> (<a href="/facts/Champollion_(spacecraft)/IHV8IezN">Champollion</a>) – planned for launch in 2003 to orbit and land on comet <a href="/facts/Tempel_1/e0PnhUdh">Tempel 1</a> and return a sample in 2010 (cancelled 1999)</li> <li>Earth Observing 2 – a plan to use space-based <a href="/facts/Lidar/b9SPUmLM">lidar</a> to measure atmospheric winds (cancelled 1998)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Earth_Observing_3/uvkJpU46">Earth Observing 3 (GIFTS)</a> – <a href="/facts/Geostationary/VBq1v5Kr">Geostationary</a> Imaging <a href="/facts/Fourier_transform_spectroscopy/qFSjz3Xe">Fourier Transform Spectrometer</a> originally planned for 2005-6 launch (cancelled)</li> <li>Space Technology 8<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> – originally planned for 2009 launch, the satellite is designed, developed and manufacture by <a href="/facts/Orbital_Sciences_Corporation/WNB0SKlF">Orbital Sciences Corporation</a> (cancelled)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li>Space Technology 9 – a NASA proposal related to precision landing and hazard avoidance for future planetary lander vehicles.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to New Millennium Program. <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050124073755/http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/">New Millennium Program site</a> at <a href="/facts/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory/zPXnxRBf">Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Shiga, David (5 February 2008). "NASA calls for ambitious outer solar system mission". New Scientist. Retrieved 16 April 2009. <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13276-nasa-calls-for-ambitious-outer-solar-system-mission.html" target="_blank">https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13276-nasa-calls-for-ambitious-outer-solar-system-mission.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"NASA's Earth Observing Technology Satellite Proves a Success" (Press release). Goddard Space Flight Center. 24 June 2002. Archived from the original on 14 April 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090414045821/http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020624eo1.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20090414045821/http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020624eo1.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS)". pcos.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 5 January 2018. <a href="https://pcos.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/current.php" target="_blank">https://pcos.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/current.php</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Mission To Gravitational Waves: Disturbance Reduction System". NASA JPL. <a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/disturbance-reduction-system-drs/" target="_blank">https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/disturbance-reduction-system-drs/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>H. Abakians, et al., "NASA's New Millennium ST-8 Project" abstract <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AGUFM.P51C1209A" target="_blank">http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AGUFM.P51C1209A</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>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 from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2009. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110807104022/http://spacefellowship.com/news/art1294/orbital-selected-to-build-and-launch-nasa-039-s-new-millennium-space-technology-8-satellite.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20110807104022/http://spacefellowship.com/news/art1294/orbital-selected-to-build-and-launch-nasa-039-s-new-millennium-space-technology-8-satellite.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Nelson, Robert M. (December 2007). NASA's New Millennium ST9 TRGS Mission (Report). <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241272329" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241272329</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>