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  • Thumbnail for Cassini–Huygens
    Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural...
    131 KB (12,225 words) - 12:20, 23 May 2025
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    robotic spacecraft for scientific measurements is often called a space probe or space observatory. Many space missions are more suited to telerobotic...
    37 KB (3,872 words) - 05:39, 1 June 2025
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    Voyager 1 (redirect from Voyager 1 probe)
    Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar...
    113 KB (8,835 words) - 13:12, 30 May 2025
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    Galileo was an American robotic space probe that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as the asteroids Gaspra and Ida. Named after the Italian...
    54 KB (5,033 words) - 18:58, 10 May 2025
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    receiver) while both aircraft are in flight. The two main refueling systems are probe-and-drogue, which is simpler to adapt to existing aircraft and the flying...
    83 KB (10,075 words) - 13:16, 11 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Parker Solar Probe
    The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 to make observations of...
    95 KB (8,589 words) - 18:27, 19 May 2025
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    New Horizons (redirect from Pluto probe)
    New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...
    177 KB (17,517 words) - 15:02, 1 June 2025
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    Huygens (/ˈhɔɪɡənz/ HOY-gənz) was an atmospheric entry robotic space probe that landed successfully on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005. Built and operated...
    48 KB (5,486 words) - 16:56, 28 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Voyager program
    program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of...
    78 KB (6,351 words) - 16:00, 31 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Mueller special counsel investigation
    2017 to March 2019. It was also called the Russia investigation, Mueller probe, and Mueller investigation. The investigation focused on three points: Russian...
    215 KB (17,847 words) - 02:40, 28 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
    The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), originally known as the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP and Explorer 80), was a NASA spacecraft operating...
    50 KB (4,518 words) - 09:57, 22 May 2025
  • example, as well as Moff Gideon's pure-droid heavy-duty Dark Troopers. Probe droids are deployed by the Empire in The Empire Strikes Back to search for...
    66 KB (4,085 words) - 04:55, 4 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ford Probe
    The Ford Probe is a liftback (i.e., hatchback) coupé manufactured and marketed by Ford for model years 1988-1997 over two generations. The Probe was a byproduct...
    38 KB (4,222 words) - 00:41, 6 April 2025
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    MESSENGER (redirect from Messenger (probe))
    MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and...
    85 KB (7,192 words) - 23:07, 6 May 2025
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    scanning force microscopy (SFM) is a very-high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), with demonstrated resolution on the order of fractions...
    75 KB (9,793 words) - 22:06, 22 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Moon Impact Probe
    The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India's national space agency, was a lunar probe that was released...
    19 KB (1,733 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Dawn (spacecraft)
    Dawn is a retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid...
    99 KB (8,432 words) - 14:51, 22 May 2025
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    Zond program (redirect from Zond probe)
    Zond (Russian: Зонд, lit. 'probe') was the name given to two distinct series of Soviet robotic spacecraft launched between 1964 and 1970. The first series...
    8 KB (990 words) - 02:54, 7 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Akatsuki (spacecraft)
    (VCO) and Planet-C, was a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) space probe tasked with studying the atmosphere of Venus. It was launched aboard an...
    43 KB (3,997 words) - 16:03, 30 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Magellan (spacecraft)
    The Magellan spacecraft was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989. Its mission objectives were to map the surface...
    51 KB (4,818 words) - 22:02, 23 May 2025
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