Flight Dynamics Facility Customers

The FDF provides support for the following launch vehicles:

  • Antares Missions
  • Ariane 5 Missions
  • Atlas Missions
  • Delta Missions
  • H-IIB Missions
  • Minotaur IV Missions
  • Pegasus/Taurus Missions
  • SeaLaunch Missions
  • Soyuz Missions
  • SpaceX Missions
  • Vega Missions

Additionally, FDF supports or has supported the following spacecraft:

  • Future Mission Support:
    • MMS:Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
    • TDRS-K: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite - K
    • SCAN Testbed: Space Communications and Navigation Testbed
    • Cygnus
    • GOES-R: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R
    • GPM: Global Precipitation Measurement
    • IRIS: Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph
    • JWST: James Webb Space Telescope
    • LADEE: Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer
    • LDCM: Landsat Data Continuation Mission
    • OCO-2: Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2
    • Orion
    • SMAP: Soil Moisture Active Passive
  • Low Earth Orbiting Missions
    • AIM: Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere
    • ALOS: Advanced Land Observation Satellite
    • Aqua
    • Aura
    • COBE:  Cosmic Background Explorer
    • EO-1:  Earth Observing-1
    • ERBS:  Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
    • EUVE:  Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite
    • FAST:  Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer
    • FASTSat: Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite
    • Fermi/GLAST: Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
    • FUSE:  Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
    • GRACE:  Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
    • GRO:  Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
    • HST:  Hubble Space Telescope
    • ICESat: Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite
    • ISS:  International Space Station
    • Jason-1
    • Landsat:  Mission Series (-4, -5, -7)
    • Nimbus:  Mission Series
    • NOAA:  (TIROS) Mission Series
    • NPP: National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project
    • QuikSCAT:  Quick Scatterometer
    • SAC-D: Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas D
    • SAGE-III:  Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment
    • SAMPEX: Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer
    • SME:  Solar Mesosphere Explorer
    • SMM:  Solar Maximum Mission
    • SNOE:  Student Nitric Oxide Explorer
    • SWAS:  Submilliter Wave Astronomy Satellite
    • STS:  Space Transportation System Series(STS-1 through STS-135)
    • Terra
    • TIMED: Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics
    • TOMS-EP: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument aboard NASA's Earth Probe
    • TOPEX: Ocean Topography Experiment
    • TRACE:  Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
    • UARS: Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
    • WIRE: Wide Field Infrared Explorer
    • WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
    • XTE:  Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer
  • High Earth Orbiting Missions
    • DE-1: Dynamics Explorer-1
    • IMP-8:  Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-8
    • IUE:  International Ultraviolet Explorer
    • Polar
    • THEMIS: Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms
  • Geosynchronous Missions
    • GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Mission Series (7-15)
    • SDO: Solar Dynamics Observatory
    • TDRSS:  Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System Mission Series (-1, -3 through -10)
  • Libration Orbiting Missions
    • ACE:  Advanced Composition Explorer
    • MAP:  Microwave Anisotropy Probe
    • SOHO:  Solar & Heliospheric Observatory
    • WIND:  Solar Wind Laboratory
  • Lunar Missions
    • ARTEMIS: Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun
    • DSPSE/Clementine: Deep Space Program Science Experiment
    • LCROSS: Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite
    • LRO: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
    • Lunar Prospector
  • Deep Space Missions
    • DSPSE/Clementine: Deep Space Program Science Experiment
    • Geotail
    • ISEE Series:  International Sun Earth Explorer Series (-1, -2, -3)
    • STEREO:  Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory