... 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. ...
... 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 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 ...
... About accuracy of the INTERBALL spacecraft motion calculation and orbital elements modification. ... The accuracy of calculation of both INTERBALL spacecraft (SC) motion has been estimated at the IKI. ...
... 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 ...
... Io has been found by NASA's Galileo spacecraft to have a giant iron core that takes ... The spacecraft also has detected a large "hole" in Jupiter's magnetic field near Io ...
... 15 and Venera 16 were a two-spacecraft mission designed to use 8-centimeter (3-inch ... The two spacecraft were inserted into Venus orbit a day apart with their orbital ...
... 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 ...