New Millennium Program (NMP) was a

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project with focus on engineering validation of new technologies for space applications. Funding for the program was eliminated from the FY2009 budget by the

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, effectively leading to its cancellation. The spacecraft in the New Millennium Program were originally named "Deep Space" (for missions demonstrating technology for planetary missions) and "Earth Observing" (for missions demonstrating technology for Earth orbiting missions). With a refocussing of the program in 2000, the Deep Space series was renamed "Space Technology".

NMP missions

Missions flown

Deep Space 1 ''Deep Space 1'' (DS1) was a NASA technology demonstration spacecraft which flew by an asteroid and a comet. It was part of the New Millennium Program, dedicated to testing advanced technologies. Launched on 24 October 1998, the ''Deep Space ...

– 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 The Mars Polar Lander, also known as the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander, was a 290-kilogram uncrewed spacecraft lander launched by NASA on January 3, 1999, to study the soil and climate of Planum Australe, a region near the south pole on Mars. It fo ...

in 1999; (failed) * Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) – (launched 2000) *

Space Technology 5 Space Technology 5 (ST5) of the NASA New Millennium program was a test of ten new technologies aboard a group of Microsatellite (spaceflight), microsatellites. Developed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the three individual small spacecraft w ...

– a cluster of three satellites investigating the Earth's

magnetosphere In astronomy and planetary science, a magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field. It is created by a celestial body with an active interior Dynamo ...

(launched 2006) * Space Technology 6 – Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (autonomy) aboard Earth Observing 1 (see above); Inertial Stellar Compass (navigation) (launched) * Space Technology 7 – disturbance reduction technology to support

gravitational wave Gravitational waves are oscillations of the gravitational field that Wave propagation, travel through space at the speed of light; they are generated by the relative motion of gravity, gravitating masses. They were proposed by Oliver Heaviside i ...

observations; (transferred to Physics of the Cosmos). Launched on the

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's LISA Pathfinder on 3 December 2015.

Cancelled missions

* Deep Space 3/ Space Technology 3 (

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) – would have been a spaceborne stellar interferometer. * Deep Space 4/ Space Technology 4 ( Champollion) – planned for launch in 2003 to orbit and land on comet Tempel 1 and return a sample in 2010 (cancelled 1999) * Earth Observing 2 – a plan to use space-based

lidar Lidar (, also LIDAR, an acronym of "light detection and ranging" or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging") is a method for determining ranging, ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected li ...

to measure atmospheric winds (cancelled 1998) * Earth Observing 3 (GIFTS) –

Geostationary A geostationary orbit, also referred to as a geosynchronous equatorial orbit''Geostationary orbit'' and ''Geosynchronous (equatorial) orbit'' are used somewhat interchangeably in sources. (GEO), is a circular geosynchronous orbit in altitud ...

Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer originally planned for 2005-6 launch (cancelled) * Space Technology 8 – originally planned for 2009 launch, the satellite is designed, developed and manufacture by

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(cancelled) * Space Technology 9 – a NASA proposal related to precision landing and hazard avoidance for future planetary lander vehicles.

References

External links

New Millennium Program site
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