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ACE
Advanced Composition Explorer - Information about the ACE mission and instruments.

Cluster II
Cluster II - Information about the four ESA space weather satellites.

CRRES
Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satelite - Information about the CRRES satelite from Ball Aerospace.

FAST
FAST Education And Public Outreach - Learn about the Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer. The site includes news and events and additional information about the FAST mission.

FAST Home Page - The home page for the Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer--built to study the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere. From NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

IGP FAST - From the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physiscs, UCLA .

NASA Small Explorer Program - FAST Mission - Mission overview, spacecraft description and more information about the Fast Aurroal Snapshot Explorer.

UCB/ FAST Homepage - Information about the instrumentation and purpose of FAST satellite. From the Univeristy of California, Berkeley

GENESIS
GENESIS - Information about the GENESIS spacecraft set for a January 2001 launch.

GENESIS Education Page - Classroom materials and interactive simulation.

GEOTAIL

GEOTAIL Spacecraft - Home page for the GEOTAIL satellite--studying the structure and dynamics of the tail region of the magnetosphere.

HESSI
The HESSI UCB Home Page - Learn about the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager set for launch later this year.

The HESSI EPO Home Page - The HESSI education and public outreach Web site.

The HESSI   ETH Home Page - The European site dedicated to the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager.

IMAGE
Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) - Launching in March 2000, the IMAGE satellite will study the global response of the Earth's magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind.

The Official SwRI Image Mission Web Site - Information on the IMAGE spacecraft from the Southwest Research Institute.

IMAGE Space Craft - Information about the IMAGE satellite.

POETRY: Public Outreach, Educational, Teaching, and Reaching Youth - Classroom activities, ask a scientist, and more.

IMEX
Inner Magnetosphere Explorer - Information about the IMEX mission and instruments.

IMP-8
IMP-8 Interplanetary Monitoring Platform - Information about the IMP-8 spacecraft lauched in 1973.

INTERBALL
INTERBALL - Information about INTERBALL program.

ISTP
International Solar-Terrestrial Physics - Information about the ISTP program including technical information, mission info, news and events.

ISTP Public Outreach - Resources for teachers, geospace information, images and movies.

POLAR
Polar at NSSDC - Information about the Polar spacecraft and instruments. From the National Space Science Data Center.

POES
NOAA POES Auroral Activity - Images of Auroral Activity Extrapolated from NOAA POES.

POES Satellite Products - Information from the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Satellite Series.

SAMPEX
Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer - Information about the SAMPEX mission and instruments.

SAMPEX Education Page - Information about the Coorperative Satellite Learning Project.

SOHO
SOHO: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - Learn about the mission and see images and movies taken from the SOHO satellite.

SOHO Explore - Lesson plans, FAQs, and educational posters and CDs.

Stanford Solar Center - SOHO data, classroom activities, and much more.

SOLAR B
Solar-B - Information about the SOLAR B spacecraft set for a 2004 launch.

Spartan 201-05
Spartan - Information the shuttle-launched Spartans project.

STEREO

Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory - Information about the new STEREO mission.

TRACE
Trace Home Page - The Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) satellite homepage. The site includes mission info, images, movies, and more. TRACE explores the Sun's photosphere and the corona.

Educational Resources - A tour of the Sun and information about TRACE.

TWINS
TWINS - Information about the Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers mission.

ULYSSES

ULYSSES - Mission information, spacecraft operations, and outreach.

ULYSSES Education Page - Connections with schools, games, animations, and links.

Yohkoh
Yohkoh Mission - Information about the mission and intruments onboard the Yohkoh satellite.

Yohkoh Public Outreach Project - Movies and images as seen by the X-ray telescope on board the Yohkoh satellite.

WIND
WIND - Studying the near-Earth solar wind, the WIND home page provides a project overview, instrument descriptions, and more.

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