... The Soviet VEGA Spacecraft Two remarkable "busloads" of automated spacecraft were launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in December of 1984. ...
... When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by the planet Uranus in January 1986, astronomers ... moons around Uranus during the spacecraft's brief visit, bringing the total number ...
... sunshade made of heat-resistant ceramic fabric protects the spacecraft's instruments ... Scientists involved in the spacecraft exploration of the solar system are patient ...
... The spacecraft is moving out of the plane of the page and to the right (firing to reduce its spacecraft velocity with respect to Saturn) and has just crossed the ring plane. ...
... The spacecraft must be aimed not to the planet, but to where the planet will be nine ... The spacecraft will already have the 107,000 kilometers per hour (66,500 miles per ...
... The International Cometary Explorer ( ICE ) spacecraft has now had a close encounter ... Telescopes on Earth (and aboard several spacecraft) will be turning more and more ...
... back into the limelight with the arrival of the Galileo spacecraft (see figure 8 ... its atmospheric probe, launched from the main spacecraft in July, will give us our ... Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to go through the belts, received a dose of ...
... On the left appears Mars's limb. From the right comes a spacecraft moving quickly. ... We see the spacecraft approaching the planet. ... leaving the craft, and finally we see the spacecraft disintegrate into large pieces ...