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Space Telescopes | impacts:

Gamma - Ray Telescopes:

1. NCGISTG21112024 | SDG9, SDG17 | Gamma-Ray Telescopes: Launch and Terminated (1965 - 2050).

X - Ray Telescopes:

1. NCGISTX22112024 | SDG9, SDG17 |  X - Ray Telescopes: Launch and Terminated, Part -1 (1970 - 1989).

2. NCGISTX23112024 | SDG9, SDG17 |  X - Ray Telescopes: Launch and Terminated, Part -2 (1987 - 2050).

3. NCGISTX24112024 | SDG9, SDG17 |  X - Ray Telescopes: Launch and Terminated, Part -3 (2005 - 2050).

Ultraviolet - Ray Telescopes:

1. NCGISTU25112024 | SDG9, SDG17 |  Ultraviolet-Ray Telescopes: Launch and Terminated (1968 - 2050).

Visible Light Telescopes:

1. NCGISTVL26112024 | SDG9, SDG17 | Visible Light Telescopes: Launch and Terminated (1989 - 2050).

Infrared and Sub-millimeter Telescopes:

1. NCGISTISM27112024 | SDG9, SDG17 |  Infrared and Sub-millimeter Telescopes: Launch and Terminated (1983 - 2050).

Microwave or Radio Telescopes:

1. NCGISTMR28112024 | SDG9, SDG17 |  Microwave & Radio Telescopes: Launch and Terminated (1989 - 2050).

Space Particle Detector or Telescopes:

1. NCGISTPD29112024 | SDG9, SDG17 | Space Particle Detectors or Telescopes: Launch and Terminated (1965 - 2050).

Gravitational Waves Space Detector or Telescopes:

1. NCGISTGD30112024 | SDG9, SDG17 | Gravitational Waves Space-Detectors or Telescopes: Launch and Terminated (1972 - 2050).

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List of Space Telescopes / Space Observatories

Space telescopes are usually grouped by the wavelength they observe: gamma ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, visible light, infrared, microwave, or radio.

1. Optical / Visible Light Space Telescopes

1. Hubble Space Telescope — HST

2. Gaia

3. Kepler Space Telescope

4. TESS — Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

5. CHEOPS

6. Hipparcos

7. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — planned NASA mission

8. Euclid — optical + near-infrared cosmology telescope

2. Infrared Space Telescopes

1. James Webb Space Telescope — JWST — active; observes early galaxies, star formation, exoplanets, and Solar System objects.

2. Spitzer Space Telescope

3. Herschel Space Observatory

4. WISE / NEOWISE

5. IRAS — Infrared Astronomical Satellite

6. AKARI

7. ISO — Infrared Space Observatory

8. Roman Space Telescope — optical + infrared

9. Ariel — planned exoplanet-atmosphere mission

10. SPHEREx

3. X-ray Space Telescopes

1. Chandra X-ray Observatory

2. XMM-Newton

3. NuSTAR

4. Swift Observatory

5. NICER

6. IXPE — Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

7. ROSAT

8. Einstein Observatory

9. Suzaku

10. Hitomi

11. XRISM

12. Athena — planned ESA X-ray observatory

4. Gamma-ray Space Telescopes

1. Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

2. Compton Gamma Ray Observatory — CGRO

3. INTEGRAL

4. Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission

5. AGILE

6. HETE-2

7. BATSE

8. CGRO/EGRET

5. Ultraviolet Space Telescopes

1. Hubble Space Telescope — UV + visible + near-IR

2. GALEX

3. IUE — International Ultraviolet Explorer

4. FUSE — Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

5. ASTROSAT / UVIT

6. Swift UVOT

7. Copernicus / OAO-3

6. Microwave / Cosmic Background Space Telescopes

1. COBE

2. WMAP

3. Planck Space Observatory

4. LiteBIRD — planned CMB polarization mission

7. Solar Space Telescopes

1. SOHO

2. SDO — Solar Dynamics Observatory

3. Hinode

4. IRIS

5. STEREO

6. Solar Orbiter

7. Parker Solar Probe

8. TRACE

9. Yohkoh

10. RHESSI

8. Exoplanet-Focused Space Telescopes

1. Kepler

2. K2 Mission

3. TESS

4. CHEOPS

5. JWST

6. Hubble

7. Spitzer

8. Roman Space Telescope

9. Ariel

10. PLATO

9. Major Active / Modern Space Telescopes

1. Hubble Space Telescope

2. James Webb Space Telescope

3. Chandra X-ray Observatory

4. XMM-Newton

5. Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

6. Swift Observatory

7. NuSTAR

8. TESS

9. Gaia

10. Euclid

11. IXPE

12. NICER

13. XRISM

14. Solar Orbiter

15. SDO

10. Important Future / Planned Space Telescopes

1. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

2. Ariel

3. PLATO

4. Athena

5. LiteBIRD

6. Habitable Worlds Observatory — HWO

7. LISA — gravitational-wave space observatory

8. Lazuli Space Observatory — privately funded proposed space telescope, reported for a possible late-2020s launch.

Most famous examples: Hubble, James Webb, Chandra, Spitzer, Kepler, TESS, Fermi, Gaia, Planck, Euclid, Roman.