Cassini–Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn. It is a flagship-class NASA-ESA-ASI robotic spacecraft sent to the Saturn system. It has studied the planet and its many […]
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Explorer 1
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States launched as part of its participation in the International Geophysical Year. The mission followed the first two satellites the previous […]
Lunokhod 2
Lunokhod 2 (in Russian Луноход moon walker) was the second of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program.The Luna […]
Lunokhod 1
Lunokhod 1 (Луноход moon walker in Russian; Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 203 vehicle 8ЕЛ№203) was the first of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as […]
Mariner 8
Mariner-H (Mariner Mars ’71) also commonly known as Mariner 8 was (along with Mariner 9) part of the Mariner Mars ’71 project. It was intended to go into Mars orbit […]
Mariner 1
Mariner 1 was the first spacecraft of the American Mariner program. A range safety officer ordered its destructive abort at 09:26:16 UT 294.5 seconds after it was launched on July […]
Mariner 3
Mariner 3 (together with Mariner 4 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was one of two identical deep-space probes designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA’s Mariner-Mars 1964 […]
Mariner 10
Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on November 3 1973 to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus.Mariner 10 was launched approximately two years after […]
Mariner 2
Mariner 2 (Mariner-Venus 1962)an American space probe to Venus was the first robotic space probe to conduct a successful planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program […]
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is an American space probe weighing 258 kilograms that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Thereafter Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft […]