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The search for W produced 5 results out of 249 records Westar A Launch Date: 04/13/1974 Domestic communications satellite for Western Union. Other Name(s):  Westar 1 |  NSSDC Link  |   Westar B Launch Date: 10/10/1974 Domestic communications satellite for Western Union. Other Name(s):  Westar 2 |  NSSDC Link  |   WIND Launch Date: 11/01/1994 WIND was launched on November 1, 1994 and is the first of two NASA spacecraft in the Global Geospace Science initiative and part of the ISTP Project. WIND will be positioned in a sunward, multiple double-lunar swingby orbit with a maximum apogee of 250Re during the first two years of operation. This will be followed by a halo orbit at the Earth-Sun L1 point. The science objectives of the WIND mission are to provide complete plasma, energetic particle, and magnetic field input for magnetospheric and ionospheric studies and to determine the magnetospheric output to interplanetary space in the up-stream region. In addition, its objectives are to investigate basic plasma processes occurring in the near-Earth solar wind and to provide baseline ecliptic plane observations to be used in heliospheric latitudes from ULYSSES. Other Name(s):  GGS/Wind, ISTP/Wind |  GSFC Link  |  Project Information  |  NSSDC Link  |  Additional URL 1  |  Additional URL 2  |  Image Gallery  |  Educational Resource  |   WIRE Launch Date: 03/04/1999 The Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) is a Small Explorer Mission designed to study the evolution of starburst galaxies and to search for distant ultra-luminous galaxies. The WIRE mission consists of a four-month survey which will detect primarily galaxies with unusually high rates of star formation or Other Name(s):  Wide-Field Infrared Explorer, Explorer 75, SMEX/WIRE, Small Explorer/WIRE, SMEX 5 |  GSFC Link  |  Project Information  |  NSSDC Link  |  Additional URL 1  |   WMAP Launch Date: 06/30/2001 The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)is designed to probe the conditions present in the early universe. The goals of WMAP are to: (1) determine the values of the cosmological parameters of the Big Bang theory; (2) examine how structures of galaxies formed in the universe; and, (3) ascertain when the first structures of galaxies formed. In order to address these goals, WMAP measures the temperature differences (anisotropies) in the cosmic microwave background radiation over the entire sky. Other Name(s):  Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, Explorer 80 |  GSFC Link  |  Project Information  |  NSSDC Link  |  Additional URL 1  |  Image Gallery  |  Educational Resource  |