To learn more about NASA and the Office of International and Interagency Relations, please visit NASA’s Web site at www.nasa.gov. To the Reader: When the National Aeronautics and cooperative activities with new partners in Africa, Space Administration (NASA) was Asia, and the Americas. This is in part a reflection created in 1958, its founding legisla- of growing global interest in the use of Earth science tion—the National Aeronautics and data for societal benefit—particularly in support of Space Act—directed the new Agency local decision-making about such important topics as to pursue cooperation “with other agricultural productivity, water management, disaster nations and groups of nations.” his prediction and response, and vector-borne diseases. principle of international cooperation has been a guiding philosophy for Of the many examples of NASA’s international cooper- NASA, and it has never been more ation described in this book, perhaps the best known is important than it is today. Such collaboration will the International Space Station. This orbiting research be essential to addressing the inherently global and laboratory—built by the United States, Canada, Europe, interrelated scientific challenges that will face us in the Japan, and Russia—has been called home by a rotating years ahead: expanding human exploration beyond the crew of six from around the world for 13 years of frontiers of low-Earth orbit; broadening human knowl- continuous crewed operations. In another well-known edge by answering profound questions about the Earth mission, several international partners contributed to and the universe we live in; solving technical issues NASA’s Curiosity rover, which made headlines in 2012 related to air traffic management, aviation safety, and with its historic precision landing on Mars to investi- the impact of aviation on climate and the environment; gate whether that planet has ever had an environment and leveraging technology investments to push the capable of supporting life. NASA is continuing to pursue boundaries of innovation. international partnerships on programs that push the boundaries of human and robotic space exploration, In carrying out its mandate of research and space such as the James Webb Space Telescope, the Global exploration, NASA has, since its establishment, Precipitation Measurement mission, the Space Launch entered into more than 3,000 agreements with over System, and the Orion crew module. Our international 120 nations and international organizations. NASA’s partners are also an intrinsic part of planning for future global partnerships are represented today by more programs, such as an innovative asteroid initiative than 600 active agreements with partner entities that will pave the way for an eventual human mission around the world. These partnerships offer multiple to Mars by leveraging ongoing investments in space benefits to NASA and its partners, from accelerating technology, science, and space exploration. the pace of scientific progress through open access to science mission data to sharing risks and costs while I would like to invite you, through the pages of this promoting discovery and advancement. publication, to learn more about NASA’s continuing international partnerships. I am confident that these While a few longstanding international partners (such examples will provide you with a sense of the breadth as Japan, Russia, Canada, the European Space Agency, of NASA’s cooperation with other nations, as well as and several European nations) account for a large per- the accompanying benefits that such cooperation has centage of NASA’s international activities, NASA has always yielded. expanded its “global reach” in recent years to include Michael F. O’Brien Associate Administrator Office of International and Interagency Relations Table of Contents International Missions and Projects Argentina Aquarius/Scientific Application Satellite-D (Aquarius/SAC-D) .....2 SCIENCE Scientific Application Satellite-C (SAC-C) ....................................3 HUMAN EXPLORATION AND OPERATIONS Australia AERONAUTICS RESEARCH Deep Space Network (DSN) .........................................................4 Aircraft Icing Research .................................................................5 EDUCATION AND OUTREACH Austria MULTILATERAL REPRESENTATION Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) ..............................................6 AND COORDINATION Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) and Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun (ARTEMIS) ............................................................7 Belgium Juno ..............................................................................................8 Solar Probe Plus (SPP) ..................................................................9 Bermuda Mobile Tracking Station .............................................................10 Brazil Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Feasibility Study .......11 Ozone Cooperation ....................................................................12 Canada Aircraft Icing Research ...............................................................13 CloudSat .....................................................................................14 International Space Station (ISS) ................................................ 15 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ........................................16 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) .................................................17 Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security– Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) ................................................18 Resource Prospector Mission (RPM) ..........................................19 Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) .............................................20 SCISAT-1 ....................................................................................21 Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission (SMAP) .............................22 Terra ...........................................................................................23 Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) and Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun (ARTEMIS) ..........................................................24 Czech Republic Van Allen Probes ........................................................................25 Denmark LEGO.........................................................................................26 Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) ................................................27 Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) .....................28 Table of Contents Europe (European Space Agency collaborations with individual European countries) Cassini-Huygens .........................................................................29 Herschel ......................................................................................30 Mars Express ...............................................................................31 Planck .........................................................................................32 Solar Orbiter ...............................................................................33 Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) ..................34 European Space Agency Cluster-II ....................................................................................35 Euclid .........................................................................................36 ExoMars .....................................................................................37 Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ..................................................38 International Space Station (ISS) ................................................39 ISS-Early Utilization ...................................................................40 ISS-Human Research Facility-European Physiology Module (ISS HRF-EPM) .........................................................................41 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ........................................42 JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) .........................................43 Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA Pathfinder) ...............44 Rosetta ........................................................................................45 Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) .............................46 X-ray Multi-Mirror-Newton (XMM-Newton) ............................47 Finland Angry Birds Space .......................................................................48 France Aircraft Icing Research ...............................................................49 Airframe Noise and Environmental Noise Mitigation .................50 Cloud-Aerosol LIDAR and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) ...........................................................51 DEvice for the study of Critical LIquids and Crystallization– Directional Solidification Insert (DECLIC-DSI) ........................52 Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope .............................................53 Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) ............................................................54 Juno ............................................................................................55 Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) ............................................56 Mars Atmosphere