New Millennium Program

• 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; failed
• Earth Observing 1, launched in 2000; successful http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020624eo1.html (see also Earth Observing System)

• Earth Observing 2 was cancelled in 1998
• Deep Space 4/Space Technology 4, also known as Champollion, was planned for launch in 2003 to orbit and land on comet Tempel 1 and return a sample in 2010; it was cancelled in 1999

• Earth Observing 3, also known as GIFTS (Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer) -- launch 2005-6
• Space Technology 5, a cluster of three satellites investigating the Earth's magnetosphere planned for 2005
• Space Technology 6, autonomy (Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment aboard Earth Observing 1 in 2004) and navigation (Inertial Stellar Compass to fly 2004/5)
• Space Technology 7, disturbance reduction technology to support gravitational wave observations; launch 2006 on LISA Pathfinder
• Space Technology 8, launch 2005-6

External link

• New Millennium Program site at JPL

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