High-Energy Missions
Pictures from these high-energy astrophysics missions are available from the HEASARC’s “Pretty Pictures” page.
Missions identified with a “*” symbol will be launched in the future. All others are either operational or no longer operational.
- ABRIXAS
- ALEXIS
- AGILE
- ANS
- Apollo 15 & 16
- Apollo-Soyuz
- ARGOS (USA)
- Ariel V
- Ariel VI
- Aryabhata
- ASCA
- Aspera *
- Astro E
- Astron
- AstroSat
- ATHENA *
- BBXRT
- BeppoSAX
- BurstCube *
- CALET
- COSI *
- CGRO
- Chandra (AXAF)
- Copernicus
- COS-B
- Cosmos series
- DAMPE
- Discoverer series
- DMSP series
- DXS
- Einstein (HEAO 2)
- Einstein Probe *
- ESRO-2B
- EURECA
- EUSO SPB
- EUVE
- EXOSAT
- Explorer 11
- eXTP *
- Fermi
- Gamma
- GECAM
- Ginga
- Glowbug
- Granat
- GRB Alpha
- GRB Beta
- HaloSat
- Hakucho
- HEAO 1
- HEAO 3
- Helios 2
- HERD *
- HETE-2
- Hitomi (formerly Astro-H)
- HXMT - Insight
- IMP 6
- IMP 7
- INTEGRAL
- IRS-P3
- ISEE-3
- IXPE
- Kvant
- Lobster Eye 1
- Lomonosov
- Luna 10 & 12
- Mars 4 & 5
- Mars Observer
- MAXI
- Minisat 1 (LEGRI)
- NEAR
- NICER
- NuSTAR
- OGO series
- ORS 3
- ORS 4
- OSO 1
- OSO 3
- OSO 4
- OSO 5
- OSO 6
- OSO 7
- OSO 8
- P78-1
- Phobos 1
- Phobos 2
- Pioneer Venus
- Polar
- Polarlight
- Prognoz 2
- Prognoz 6
- Prognoz 7
- Prognoz 9
- Proton 1 & 2
- PUEO *
- Radsat
- Ranger 3 & 5
- ROSAT
- RXTE
- Salyut-4
- SAS 2
- SAS 3
- SIGNE 3
- Skylab
- Solar Max
- Solrad 10
- Solrad 11A/B
- Spacelab 1
- Spacelab 2
- Spartan 1
- SROSS
-
SRG
- StarBurst *
- Suzaku/Astro E2
- SVOM
- Swift
- TARANIS
- TD-1A
- Tenma
- Uhuru
- Ulysses
- Vela 5A
- Vela 5B
- Vela 6A/B
- Venera 11 & 12
- Venera 13 & 14
- VZLUSat-2
- Wind
- WASS
- XL-Calibur
- XMM-Newton
- XPNAV-1
- XPO Sat
- XRISM
- XQC
High-Energy Mission Network
Information on other non high-energy missions is available at the NSSDC.