Space telescopes

Learn more about current missions, future space telescopes, and past missions.

Current missions

• ASTROSAT: Canada contributes technology to India's first space astronomy mission
• BRITE Constellation: A fleet of nanosatellites to study the brightest stars in the night sky
• MOST – A tiny satellite probes the mysteries of the universe
• NEOSSat: Canada's sentinel in the skies
• James Webb Space Telescope, successor to Hubble

Future space telescopes

• Ariel: Exploring the atmospheres of exoplanets
• Euclid: Understanding dark energy and our expanding universe
• XRISM: Canadian scientists to get glimpse of the hot universe

Past missions

• ASTRO-H: Canada Partners on Japanese X-ray Space Observatory
• Illuminating some mysteries of the cosmos with FUSE
• The Herschel Space Observatory
• The Planck Space Telescope: Surveying the Sky