Space Telescopes | impacts:
Gamma - Ray Telescopes:
X - Ray Telescopes:
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NCGISTX23112024 | SDG9, SDG17 | X - Ray Telescopes: Launch and Terminated, Part -2 (1987 - 2050).
NCGISTX24112024 | SDG9, SDG17 | X - Ray Telescopes: Launch and Terminated, Part -3 (2005 - 2050).
Ultraviolet - Ray Telescopes:
Visible Light Telescopes:
Infrared and Sub-millimeter Telescopes:
Microwave or Radio Telescopes:
Space Particle Detector or Telescopes:
Gravitational Waves Space Detector or Telescopes:
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Space telescopes are usually grouped by the wavelength they observe: gamma ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, visible light, infrared, microwave, or radio.
Hubble Space Telescope — HST
Gaia
Kepler Space Telescope
TESS — Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
CHEOPS
Hipparcos
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — planned NASA mission
Euclid — optical + near-infrared cosmology telescope
James Webb Space Telescope — JWST — active; observes early galaxies, star formation, exoplanets, and Solar System objects.
Spitzer Space Telescope
Herschel Space Observatory
WISE / NEOWISE
IRAS — Infrared Astronomical Satellite
AKARI
ISO — Infrared Space Observatory
Roman Space Telescope — optical + infrared
Ariel — planned exoplanet-atmosphere mission
SPHEREx
Chandra X-ray Observatory
XMM-Newton
NuSTAR
Swift Observatory
NICER
IXPE — Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer
ROSAT
Einstein Observatory
Suzaku
Hitomi
XRISM
Athena — planned ESA X-ray observatory
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory — CGRO
INTEGRAL
Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
AGILE
HETE-2
BATSE
CGRO/EGRET
Hubble Space Telescope — UV + visible + near-IR
GALEX
IUE — International Ultraviolet Explorer
FUSE — Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
ASTROSAT / UVIT
Swift UVOT
Copernicus / OAO-3
COBE
WMAP
Planck Space Observatory
LiteBIRD — planned CMB polarization mission
SOHO
SDO — Solar Dynamics Observatory
Hinode
IRIS
STEREO
Solar Orbiter
Parker Solar Probe
TRACE
Yohkoh
RHESSI
Kepler
K2 Mission
TESS
CHEOPS
JWST
Hubble
Spitzer
Roman Space Telescope
Ariel
PLATO
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope
Chandra X-ray Observatory
XMM-Newton
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Swift Observatory
NuSTAR
TESS
Gaia
Euclid
IXPE
NICER
XRISM
Solar Orbiter
SDO
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Ariel
PLATO
Athena
LiteBIRD
Habitable Worlds Observatory — HWO
LISA — gravitational-wave space observatory
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.