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MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. [9] [10] The name is a backronym for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging, and a reference to the messenger god Mercury from Roman mythology.
The Solar System Family Portrait is an image of many of the Solar System's planets and moons acquired by MESSENGER during November 2010 from approximately the orbit of Mercury. The mosaic is intended to be complementary to the Voyager 1 ' s Family Portrait acquired from the outer edge of the Solar System on February 14, 1990.
The launch history of NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) since the program formed in 1998 at Kennedy Space Center. The launch of NASA robotic missions occurred from a number of launch sites on a variety of rockets. After the list of launches are descriptions of select historic LSP missions.
This week, NASA will live streaming a historic event as Firefly Aerospace launches its first mission to the Moon. The Blue Ghost mission will carry 10 NASA science investigations and first-of ...
Watch below for the SpaceX launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, scheduled for 3:22 p.m. ET on May 30. Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will be the first astronauts ...
Photo Credit: NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams wave as they leave the operations for a trip to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 on Wednesday in Cape Canaveral, Fla ...
The Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center (commonly known as just the Launch Control Center or LCC) is a four-story building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, used to manage launches of launch vehicles from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.
The 120-metre rocket is the biggest and most powerful spacecraft ever built, capable of producing 7.5 million kilograms of thrust – roughly double that of Nasa’s Space Launch System (SLS).