Origins Program
's Origins program is a decades-long study addressing the origins of the universe, various astronomical bodies, and life. The Origins program was started in the 1990s.
So far, it consists of the following missions:
- ground-based
- * Keck telescopes*
- * Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer*
- * Keck Interferometer*
- airborne
- * Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy *
- space based
- * Hubble Space Telescope *
- * Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer - completed
- * Spitzer Space Telescope - completed
- * Kepler Space Observatory - completed
- * Space Interferometry Mission - cancelled
- * Terrestrial Planet Finder - cancelled
- * James Webb Space Telescope *
- * Single Aperture Far Infrared Observatory
- * Large UV/Optical Telescope
- * Life Finder
- * Planet Imager