In 2019, a spacecraft known as Euclid will begin such a mission to study dark energy.
ESA launched the Cluster mission to study so-called "space weather" and the electrical malfunctions this could cause on satellites.
It was one of the goals of the mission to study this and this is how to do it.
The scientific mission – to study the planet's thin atmosphere – was not among the few NASA activities deemed "essential".
NASA conducted the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) mission to study how storms form and rapidly intensify into hurricanes.
16 Odyssey Heads to Mars The Mars Odyssey spacecraft lifted off on a mission to study minerals and restore the public image of NASA's Mars exploration.
The Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic plains in May on a three-month mission to study whether the environment could be friendly to microbial life.
(And what about the professors of foreign literatures? Is it not their very natural mission to study works in the context of world literature? Not a chance.
The Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) field campaign, started in 2015 and is a five-year mission to study the role of the oceans in melting Greenland's ice.
The Galileo spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter since late 1995, completed its official extended mission to study Jupiter's large ice-covered moon Europa, but it continued operating.
The robot spacecraft, called NEAR for Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, went into orbit around Eros on Feb. 14 for a one-year mission to study one of these primordial bodies in unprecedented detail.
