CCAT - Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope
The Cornell Caltech Atacama Telescope is a project to build a large submillimeter telescope in the high Andes of northern Chile.

CLASH
Cluster Lensing And Supernova Survey with Hubble (CLASH) - An Innovative Survey to Place New Constraints on the Fundamental Components of the Cosmos using the Hubble Space Telescope

DUNE
The purpose of the DUNE mission (Dark UNiverse Explorer) is to shed light on the dark components of the Universe with a wide field imager in space.

Herschel
The Herschel Space Observatory is a space-based telescope that studies the Universe in the light of the far-infrared and submillimeter portions of the spectrum.

JWST - James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018.

Kepler
The Kepler Mission, NASA's mission to find how many potentially habitable exoplanets exist, launched in 2009 and is now finding thousands of exoplanet candidates.

NuSTAR
NuSTAR is a pathfinder mission that will open the high energy X-ray sky for sensitive study for the first time.

Planck
Planck is the first European mission to study the birth of the Universe. Planck was launched on the 14th of May of 2009.

SNAP
SNAP is a proposed optical/infrared mission that would detect thousands of Type Ia supernova plus conduct weak-lensing studies.

Spitzer
The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) was launched into space by a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 25 August 2003.

WISE
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a four-channel, super-cooled infrared telescope designed to survey the entire sky with 1,000 times more sensitivity than previous infrared missions.

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