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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory built the Galileo spacecraft and managed the Galileo program for NASA. West Germany's Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm supplied the propulsion module. NASA's Ames Research Center managed the atmospheric probe, which was built by Hughes Aircraft Company. At launch, the orbiter and probe together had a mass of 2,562 kg ...
Spacecraft Organization Date Location Status Notes Image Ref WMAP: NASA: 30 June 2001 (launch) – October 2010 (end) [63] Sun-Earth L2 point success cosmic background radiation observations; sent to graveyard orbit after 9 years of use. [63] 2001-027A: Spitzer Space Telescope: NASA: 25 August 2003 (launch) – 30 January 2020 (end)
Solar System space probes operational as of November 2024. This is a list of active space probes which have escaped Earth orbit. It includes lunar space probes, but does not include space probes orbiting at the Sun–Earth Lagrangian points (for these, see List of objects at Lagrangian points). A craft is deemed "active" if it is still able to ...
JPL built the Galileo spacecraft and managed the Galileo program for NASA, but West Germany's Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm supplied the propulsion module, and Ames managed the atmospheric probe, which was built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. At launch, the orbiter and probe together had a mass of 2,562 kg (5,648 lb) and stood 6.15 m (20.2 ft) tall.
Starting with Galileo's first orbit, the spacecraft's camera, the Solid-State Imager (SSI), began taking one or two images per orbit of Io while the moon was in Jupiter's shadow. This allowed Galileo to monitor high-temperature volcanic activity on Io by observing thermal emission sources across its surface. [ 68 ]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and officials from the Turks and Caicos Islands have launched probes into SpaceX's explosive Starship rocket test that sent debris ...
Model of a Galileo satellite. This is a list of past and present satellites of the Galileo navigation system.The fully operational constellation will nominally consist of 30 satellites in Medium Earth Orbit, with 24 active and 6 spares equally divided into 3 orbital planes in a Walker 24/3/1 configuration.
Probe will study the results obtained by the NASA's DART impactor 4 years after its mission. [22] [23] Dimorphos 65803 Didymos I: 0.16: 2003: Hera: 2026: Probe will study the results obtained by the NASA's DART impactor 4 years after its mission. [23] 98943 Torifune: 0.5: 2001: Hayabusa2# 2026: Near-Earth asteroid of the Apollo group; extended ...