AstroWeb: Space Agencies and Organizations

ATNF - Australia Telescope National Facility (CSIRO)

CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) is an organisation that supports and undertakes research in radio astronomy. It operates the Australia Telescope, the collective name for a set of radio telescopes in New South Wales. These telescopes are used, individually or together, to study objects in the Universe ranging from the remains of dead stars to entire galaxies.

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/

Canadian Space Agency (CSA - ASC - Agence Spatiale Canadienne)

http://www.space.gc.ca/

Carnegie Institution of Washington

The Carnegie Institution of Washington is a private, nonprofit organization engaged in basic research and advanced education in astronomy, the earth sciences, and biology. It comprises five research campuses, including the Observatories, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, and the Geophysical Laboratory. Its website includes descriptions of research under way at Carnegie, an Ask-The-Experts page, and information about the Institution's education outreach programs.

http://www.ciw.edu/

Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)

The French Space Agency.

http://www.cnes.fr/

Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE, Argentina)

Information on the Centro Regional de Datos Satelitales (CREDAS) and on Argentina's National Space Plan

http://www.conae.gov.ar/caratula.html

Danish Space Research Institute (DSRI, Denmark)

http://www.dsri.dk/

Destination Earth (NASA)

The official Website for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise.

http://www.earth.nasa.gov/

Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR)

DLR is Germany's national aerospace center as well as the national space agency.

http://www.dlr.de/

ESA - Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station (ESA - VILSPA: IUE, ISO)

General information on the ESA Satellite Tracking Station and on the projects supported at Villafranca: IUE, Marecs and ISO (in the near future). The service includes links to other ESA Establishments.

http://www.vilspa.esa.es/

ESRIN - European Space Agency (ESRIN)

ESRIN is one of the four establishements of the European Space Agency. ESRIN's main activities are centered on the acquisition, archiving and dissemination of data from Earth Observation missions in particular ERS-1 for which it is responsible for operating the ground infrastructure needed. ESRIN's main function is as the Agency's data handling and dissemination centre, being at the forefront of technologically advanced information systems.

http://www.esrin.esa.it/htdocs/esrin/esrin.html

ESTEC - European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC)

European Space Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands, one of the three centers of the European Space Agency (ESA).

http://www.estec.esa.nl/

European Southern Observatory (ESO)

ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is a multinational organisation of eight European member states. It operates astronomical observatories in Chile and has its headquarters in Munich, Germany.

http://www.eso.org/

European Space Agency (ESA)

Main access points are:

• European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
  • Astrophysics Division
• European Space Operations Centre (ESOC)
• European Space Research Institute (ESRIN)
• European Astronaut Centre (EAC)
• Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station (VILSPA)

http://www.esrin.esa.it/

European Space Agency Astrophysics Division

An overview of the activities of the Astrophysics Division, information of the projects, location, etc.: local information - staff, general news, job vacancies, meetings and symposia, astrophysics research activities at ESTEC, ESA astronomy project activities, astronomical data archives. Links to several sites likely to be useful to astronomers are also provided.

http://astro.estec.esa.nl/

European Space Operations Centre (ESA/ESOC)

ESOC is the satellite control centre of the European Space Agency (ESA). It is responsible for the operations of all satellites and related ground stations and communications network.

http://www.esoc.esa.de/

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

http://www.isro.org/

Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aerospacial (INTA)

The National Space Agency in Spain.

http://www.inta.es/

International Space Science Institute (ISSI)

ISSI is an Institute in Switzerland at which scientists from different countries can work together. Its main task is to contribute to the achievement of a deeper understanding of the results from space-research missions, adding value to those results through multi-disciplinary research in an atmosphere of international cooperation.

http://www.issi.unibe.ch

International Space University (ISU)

The International Space University is an interdisciplinary, intercultural and international institution preparing individuals to respond to the current needs and the increasing and evolving demands of the space sector, through multidisciplinary education and research programs.

http://www.isunet.edu/

Italian Space Agency (ASI)

http://www.asi.it/

NAS/NRC Space Studies Board

The SSB is an advisory board within the National Research Council, which is in turn the operational arm of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. The SSB operates a number of standing committees and task groups that perform studies in space science and policy for the federal government.

http://www.nas.edu/ssb/ssb.html

NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)

http://www.arc.nasa.gov/

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/

NASA Glenn Research Center

NASA's John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. Formerly known as the Lewis Research Center. The new name became official on March 1, 1999.

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC, Greenbelt, MD)

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC)

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/

NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/

NASA Langley Research Center

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA, has been established in 1917 as the first national civil aeronautics laboratory. NASA Langley has become a world-class center for aeronautics, earth science, space technology and structures and materials research.

http://www.larc.nasa.gov/

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/

NASA Network Application and Information Center (NAIC)

The Network Applications And Information Center (NAIC), located at Ames Research Center, was established in March 1993 to coordinate network information center (NIC) services for NASA. The NAIC mission is: (1) To facilitate a distributed system of NASA Center NICs. (2) To distribute and assist NASA users with advanced applications programs developed or supported by the ANA group. (3) To act as liaison between NASA and other government network information activities. (4) To foster the use of information protocols, standards, and procedures among NASA NICs that are conducive to quick and easy network access to online information resources. (5) To serve as a NIC of first and last resort for users at Centers without NICs and for scientists and educators coming from other networks. (6) To act as a high-level referral center for NASA information resources.

http://naic.nasa.gov/naic/

NASA Office of Space Sciences

• Search for Origins
• Structure and evolution of the Universe
• Exploration of the Solar System
• The Sun-Earth connection

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oss/

NASA SCAN

WAIS index to abstracts from NASA's Selected Current Space Aeronautics (SCAN) abstract service

wais://netsrv.casi.sti.nasa.gov:210/scan

NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI)

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/home.html

NASA Search (NASA wide search engine)

This service allows you to easily search through hundreds of thousands of documents published on NASA web sites. Enter a word or phrase and press the return key. The results will be sorted by best match.

http://www.nasa.gov/search/

NASA Space Science Data Operations Office (SSDOO)

http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

NASA Space Sensors and Instrument Technology (NASA OSAT Space Instrument Technology)

The intention of the Sensors and Instrument Technology home page is to provide convenient access to program information for those involved or interested in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Sensors and Instruments Technology Program. This is an experimental service provided by the Spacecraft Systems Division staff of the Office of Space Access and Technology at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

http://ranier.oact.hq.nasa.gov/Sensors_page/InstHP.html

NASA pages by subject (NASA)

http://www.nasa.gov/hqpao/nasa_subjectpage.html

NASA's Origins program

NASA's Origins Program will search for clues to help us find our cosmic roots including answer to questions such as:

• How did the first galaxies form?
• How do stars and planetary systems form?
• Are there any planets outside our solar system that are capable of sustaining life?
• How did life originate on Earth?
• Is there life (however primitive or evolved) outside our solar system?

http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/

National Academy of Sciences - Board on Physics and Astronomy (National Research Council)

http://www.nas.edu/bpa/

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

http://www.nasa.gov/

National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA)

http://yyy.tksc.nasda.go.jp/index_e.html

Romanian Space Agency (ROSA)

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) is the National public institution which co-ordinates and represents the space activities in Romania. ROSA co-ordinates the Romanian Space Programme, mainly the research and development components.

http://www.rosa.ro/

Space Research Institute (IKI)

As the leading organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of investigations of Outer Space, Solar System planets and other objects of the Universe, Space Research Institute (IKI) is primarily in charge of long-range planning and elaboration of space research programs of which a considerable part is performed within the framework of international space research cooperation.

http://arc.iki.rssi.ru/Welcome.html

Space Research Organization of the Netherlands (SRON)

SRON is a foundation within the framework of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
Its mission is to initiate, to develop, to build and to use internationally outstanding instruments for scientific research in and from space.

http://www.sron.nl/

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Home page of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs focusing on United Nations activities in outer space matters, particularly on planetary exploration and astronomy (=basic space science).

http://www.un.or.at/OOSA/