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    GRACE and GRACE-FO (category Earth observation satellites of the United States)
    responsible for the overall mission management under the NASA ESSP (Earth System Science Pathfinder) program. The principal investigator is Byron Tapley of the...
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    Mars Pathfinder was an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the...
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    Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (category Earth observation satellites of the United States)
    NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program, selected from NASA’s third Earth Venture Instrument competition. "NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program"...
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    TROPICS (spacecraft constellation) (category Earth observation satellites of the United States)
    UTC. The TROPICS Pathfinder CubeSat mission, consisting of a single satellite, was approved by NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program Office...
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    Sensing and Geographical Information System Alpha Science International p48-51 Earth System Science Pathfinder NASA NASA (1999) EOS Reference Manual...
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    portion of the mission. The mission was selected under NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder program in 1999. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder...
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    Uranus Pathfinder was a mission concept for the Uranian system evaluated in the 2010s by the European Space Agency. In 2011, scientists from the Mullard...
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  • mission". ESA. 30 April 2024. Retrieved 27 June 2024. "NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program" (PDF). NASA. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 8 September...
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  • "Pathfinder" is the tenth episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, 130th episode overall. It features...
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  • climatic science. The program is the centrepiece of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. Prior to the development of the current Earth Observing System (EOS)...
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    LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was an ESA space mission, was launched on 3 December 2015 on board Vega flight VV06, and operated until July 2017. The mission tested...
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    June 2017. "ESA Science & Technology: LISA Pathfinder". European Space Agency. Retrieved 20 August 2012. "Space Science – LISA Pathfinder overview". European...
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    sample capsule to Earth. It returned briefly in late 2004 before being pushed into heliocentric orbit in early 2005. LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was launched...
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  • release). 14 March 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2023. "NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program" (PDF). NASA. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 8 September...
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    Orbiting Carbon Observatory (category Earth observation satellites of the United States)
    by NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages OCO for NASA's Science Mission Directorate...
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    mission". ESA. 30 April 2024. Retrieved 27 June 2024. "NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program" (PDF). NASA. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 8 September...
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  • Interplanetary Nano-Spacecraft Pathfinder in Relevant Environment (INSPIRE) is a future NASA mission involving sending CubeSats out of Earth's orbit into deep space...
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  • Investigator, The Hydrosphere State satellite mission (HYDROS), NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder program, 2000-2005. "2015 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows...
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  • compared to systems commonly used on Earth. Direct teleoperation of a Mars rover is impractical, as the round trip communication time between Earth and Mars...
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    Sojourner (rover) (category Mars Pathfinder)
    on July 4, 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission. Sojourner was operational on Mars for 92 sols (95 Earth days), and was the first wheeled vehicle...
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  • beginning with the Mars Pathfinder mission was planned for 1995 to be followed up by one in 1998 to return samples to Earth for study. Study of primitive...
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    which is in Earth time 12 hours 20 minutes after midnight. For the Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rover (MER), Phoenix, and Mars Science Laboratory...
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    "Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) FAQ". NASA JPL. "NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder Program" (PDF). NASA Office of Inspector General. 5 September...
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    Viking 2 were first successful NASA landers, launched in 1975. NASA's Mars Pathfinder, launched in 1996, successfully delivered the first Mars rover, Sojourner...
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    National Laboratory Pathfinder - Cells (NLP-Cells) National Laboratory Pathfinder - Vaccine - 1A (NLP-Vaccine-1A) National Laboratory Pathfinder - Vaccine - 1B...
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    "seven minutes of terror." The first NASA rover, Sojourner (on the Mars Pathfinder lander), and twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity, used a combination of...
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    The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), officially Danuri, is South Korea's first lunar mission. The orbiter, its science payload and ground control...
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  • Superiority Systems Wing of the Space and Missile Systems Center. The first "pathfinder" satellite of the SBSS system (SBSS 1, aka USA 216, COSPAR 2010-048A, SATCAT...
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    Previous successful U.S. Mars rovers include Sojourner from the Mars Pathfinder mission and the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Curiosity...
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    cooling system. The first two Discovery missions were Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) (later called Shoemaker NEAR) and Mars Pathfinder. These initial...
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