The National Aeronautics and Space Administration decreed an early death yesterday to one of its flagship missions and most celebrated successes, the Hubble Space Telescope.

Planck is a flagship mission of Esa.

I got to see you when I was up last Sunday for the flagship mission of recording TWiT with the gang.

The top choice for a flagship mission was the Europa Geophysical Explorer, which would orbit Europa, a moon of Jupiter, to see if there is an ocean under its icy shell.

Since its launch on July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy, taking its place in the fleet of "Great Observatories."

Fobos-Grunt was now made one of the program's flagship missions.

SIM Lite is considered the flagship mission of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (formerly known as the Navigator Program).

ATLAST is envisioned as a flagship mission of the 2025 - 2035 period, designed to address one of the most compelling questions of our time: is there life elsewhere in our Galaxy?

After the "flagship" multibillion-dollar missions of the 1970s, in the 1980s NASA was looking for a new, more affordable direction for the 1990s and beyond.

Going to the Moon and Mars, they say, is exciting, and NASA needs something exciting as its flagship mission.