New Millennium program

NASA's New Millennium program is focused on engineering validation of new technologies for space applications. Funding for the program was eliminated from the NASA FY2009 budget, effectively leading to its cancellation. [cite web |url=http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13276-nasa-calls-for-ambitious-outer-solar-system-mission.html |title=NASA calls for ambitious outer solar system mission |publisher=New Scientist |author=David Shiga |date=2008-02-05]

Past New Millennium missions include:
* Deep Space 1, 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 in 1999; failed
* Earth Observing 1, launched in 2000; successful [http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020624eo1.html] (see also Earth Observing System)
* Space Technology 5, a cluster of three satellites investigating the Earth's magnetosphere launched in 2006; successful

Cancelled missions:
* Earth Observing 2 was cancelled in 1998
* Deep Space 4/Space Technology 4, also known as "Champollion", was planned for launch in 2003 to orbit and land on comet Tempel 1 and return a sample in 2010; it was cancelled in 1999

Planned missions had included:
* Earth Observing 3, also known as "GIFTS" ("Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer") -- launch 2005-6
* Space Technology 6, autonomy ("Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment" aboard Earth Observing 1 in 2004) and navigation ("Inertial Stellar Compass" to fly 2004/5)
* Space Technology 7, disturbance reduction technology to support gravitational wave observations; launch 2009 on LISA Pathfinder
* Space Technology 8, scheduled for launch 2009, the satellite is designed, developed and manufacture by Orbital [http://www.spacefellowship.com/News/?p=1294]

References

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External links

* [http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ New Millennium Program site] at JPL