... the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft, was launched August 27, 1962 ... The Mariner planetary spacecraft series began in 1960 as a group of mission studies ...
... The Mariner 5 spacecraft was the fifth in a series of spacecraft used for planetary exploration in the flyby mode. ... The spacecraft also advanced the techniques of building and operating interplanetary spacecraft, as had each Mariner before it. ...
... The Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of ... The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical ... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from May 11 to 26, 1967. ...
... NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered ... With the spacecraft now in the magnetosphere, we begin our first direct measurements ...
... This configuration allows a spacecraft to swing from one planet to the next without the need for large onboard propulsion systems; the flyby of each planet both accelerates the spacecraft and bends its flight path. ...
... The two spacecraft were inserted into Venus orbit a day apart with their orbital ... The two spacecraft were identical and were based on modifications to the orbiter ...
... The Lunar Orbiter 3 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of ... The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical ...
... The Lunar Orbiter 2 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of ... The spacecraft was placed in a cislunar trajectory and injected into an elliptical ...
... The Luna 13 spacecraft was launched toward the Moon from an earth-orbiting platform ... The petal encasement of the spacecraft was opened, antennas were erected, and radio ...
... The Luna 9 spacecraft was the first spacecraft to achieve a lunar soft landing and to transmit photographic data to Earth. ... 3, 1966, the four petals, which formed the spacecraft, opened outward and stabilized the spacecraft on the lunar surface ...