Probe Launch Complex C or PLC-C at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States, is a launch complex which was used for six sounding rocket...
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ICBM Launch Complex 374-7 Vandenberg AFB Probe Launch Complex C (1971—1975), sounding rockets launch facility Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3 (1960—)...
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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (redirect from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 1)
interplanetary probes. The Atlas-Centaur launch complex LC-36 was used for the 1960s Surveyor uncrewed lunar landing program and the last five Mariner probes through...
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Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41), previously Launch Complex 41 (LC-41), is an active launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. As of 2024, the...
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from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on 30 August 2012. Liftoff occurred at 4:05 a.m. EDT. Van Allen Probe B deactivated...
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in plutonium production a mid to late 2030s launch would be more likely. Voyager 2 is the only space probe to have visited the Uranus system, completing...
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Helios (spacecraft) (redirect from Helios probe)
Helios-A and Helios-B (after launch renamed Helios 1 and Helios 2) are a pair of probes that were launched into heliocentric orbit to study solar processes...
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Akatsuki (spacecraft) (redirect from Akatsuki (probe))
(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 H-IIA...
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for Project Chaser, a series of launches of Aerobee 170 sounding rockets from Vandenberg AFB Probe Launch Complex C. The purpose of Project Chaser was...
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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 space...
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Ulysses (spacecraft) (redirect from Ulysses probe)
YOO-liss-eez) was a robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes. It was launched in 1990 and made three "fast...
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Pioneer Venus Multiprobe (category Spacecraft launched in 1978)
also an orbiter launched in 1978, part of the overall Pioneer Venus project along with this entry probe mission. Whereas the probes entered the atmosphere...
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Cassini–Huygens (redirect from Cassini probe)
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...
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2017, SpaceX uses Launch Complex 39A to launch their launch vehicles. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), operated by Space Launch Delta 45 of the...
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"Delta 4-Heavy selected for launch of solar probe". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 18 March 2015. "NASA Press Kit: Parker Solar Probe" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved...
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MESSENGER (redirect from Messenger (probe))
loaded in MESSENGER. The MESSENGER probe was launched on August 3, 2004, at 06:15:56 UTC by NASA from Space Launch Complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force...
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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...
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Huygens (spacecraft) (redirect from Huygens Space Probe)
robotic space probe that landed successfully on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005. Built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), launched by NASA, it...
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Self-replicating spacecraft (redirect from Von Neumann Probe)
500-year period, and then use the resulting automated industrial complex to construct more probes with a single seed factory on board each. It has been theorized...
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Mars Climate Orbiter (category NASA space probes)
Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian climate, Martian...
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recently the launch complex has been used for vehicles in the Delta launch vehicle family, derived from the Thor missile, to launch probes to the Moon...
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Mueller special counsel investigation (redirect from Mueller probe)
2017 to March 2019. It was also called the Russia investigation, Mueller probe, and Mueller investigation. The investigation focused on three points: Russian...
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Magellan (spacecraft) (redirect from Magellan probe)
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...
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landed a short distance away and no radioactive material was lost. Launch Complex 374-7 was located in Bradley Township, Van Buren County farmland just...
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SpaceX CRS-31 (category Spacecraft launched in 2024)
CRS-31 launched from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center on 5 November 2024 at 02:29:31 UTC (4 November, 9:29:31 pm EST, local time at the launch site)...
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Island in Florida). At the military base are several Space Launch Complexes (SLC) used for launching payloads into polar orbits, with some of them currently...
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flight after mishap probe". Reuters. Retrieved 11 October 2022. Robinson-Smith, Will (7 October 2024). "ESA's Hera spacecraft aims to launch on SpaceX's Falcon...
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The Pacific Spaceport Complex – Alaska (PSCA), formerly known as the Kodiak Launch Complex (KLC), is a dual-use commercial and military spaceport for sub-orbital...
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expected to launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This will be the first crewed launch from this complex, which...
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