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Artist's rendition of Mars Express as seen by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Image of Mars Express in orbit at Mars. 2001 Mars Odyssey was launched April 7, 2001 on a Delta II rocket and currently holds the record for the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth at 23 years, 3 months and 17 days.
Voyager 1 is currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth at about 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away. Meanwhile, Voyager 2 has traveled more than 12.6 billion miles (20.3 billion ...
Given Voyager 1’s immense distance from Earth, it takes a radio signal about 22.5 hours to reach the probe, and another 22.5 hours for a response signal from the spacecraft to reach Earth.
Longest operational lunar rover after breaking the longevity record of 321 Earth days held by Soviet Union's Lunokhod 1 rover. [82] China 20 November 2019 Moon: Chang'e 5: First robotic rendezvous and docking by two spacecraft (lunar orbiter attached with reentry-capsule and lunar ascent vehicle) in lunar orbit or any orbit other than Earth's ...
First spacecraft to orbit one of the Moon's Lagrange point (L2). USA (NASA) ARTEMIS-P1 [62] 22 October 2010: First spacecraft to orbit the Moon's Lagrange 1 point. USA (NASA) ARTEMIS-P2 [62] 18 March 2011: First orbit of Mercury. USA (NASA) MESSENGER: 16 July 2011: First orbit of an object in the asteroid belt . USA (NASA) Dawn: 6 August 2012
NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is sending science data again. Voyager 1's four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet Propulsion ...
Renamed Marella Discovery 2 in October 2017. Marella Explorer: 1996: Meyer Werft: 2018: 76,522 tons Malta: Previously Celebrity Galaxy, Mein Schiff 1, sold to Marella in 2018. originally planned to be named TUI Explorer: Marella Explorer 2: 1995: 2019: 71,545 tons Malta: Previously Celebrity Century, SkySea Golden Era, sold to Marella in 2019 ...
The vast majority of NASA's most interesting projects are ones that are fresh and new, like the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. As technology advances, NASA can do more and more ...