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OTD In Space – February 23: Pioneer 11 Leaves The Solar System
NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft left the solar system! This was the second spacecraft to travel beyond the planetary part of our solar system, which ends at Neptune's orbit. An almost identical ...
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Hope is all but lost for private asteroid probe in deep space — 'the chance of talking with Odin is minimal'
"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...
Astronomy on MSN2d
Why so many spacecraft carry magnetometers
Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...
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Rocket Lab’s Pioneer Spacecraft Successfully Deployed to Orbit, Powering Varda Space Industries' Third In-Space Manufacturing Mission
The Pioneer spacecraft leverages Rocket Lab’s vertically ... risks and uncertainties included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, as such factors ...
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NASA tweaks Voyager probes to help them hit a half century of service
A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a new lease on life as NASA engineers order the Voyager 1 and 2 deep-space ...
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AI to power China’s mission to the edges of the solar system
Only a handful of spacecraft have been launched towards the edges of the solar system or heliopause. These include Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX ...
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Rocket Lab Clears Critical Design Review for Space Force VICTUS HAZE Mission
Rocket Lab will configure its vertically integrated Pioneer spacecraft to meet the unique ... included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, as such ...