List Of Earth Flybys
List of Earth flybys is a list of cases where spacecraft incidentally performed Earth Flyby (spaceflight), flybys, typically for a gravity assist to another body. Missions See also * List of Solar System probes * Gravity assist * Planetary flyby * Mars flyby References {{DEFAULTSORT:Earth flybys Earth, Flybys Outer space lists, Flyby Flybys Articles containing video clips ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mdis Depart Anot
MDIS may refer to: * McDonnell Douglas Information Systems, now known as NEC Software Solutions * Management Development Institute of Singapore * Mercury Dual Imaging System, carried on the MESSENGER space probe {{disambig ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nozomi (probe)
was a Japanese Mars orbiter that failed to reach Mars due to electrical failure. It was constructed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, University of Tokyo and launched on July 4, 1998, at 03:12 JST (July 3, 1998, at 18:12 UTC) with an on-orbit dry mass of 258 kg and 282 kg of propellant. The Nozomi mission was terminated on December 31, 2003. ''Nozomi'' was designed to study the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind and to develop technologies for use in future planetary missions. Specifically, instruments on the spacecraft were to measure the structure, composition and dynamics of the ionosphere, aeronomy effects of the solar wind, the escape of atmospheric constituents, the intrinsic magnetic field, the penetration of the solar-wind magnetic field, the structure of the magnetosphere, and dust in the upper atmosphere and in orbit around Mars. The mission would have also returned images of Mars's surface. Mission profile Lau ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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MESSENGER
Messenger, Messengers, The Messenger or The Messengers may refer to: People * Courier, a person or company that delivers messages, packages, or mail * Messenger (surname) * Bicycle messenger, a bicyclist who transports packages through cities * Messenger-at-arms, an officer of the Scottish Court of Session * Messenger of the Court, a court officer responsible for carrying communications and executing other orders * Prophets and messengers in Islam * Muhammad and other prophets in Islam, who were known as Messengers of Allah (God) Science and technology Biology and chemistry * Chemical messenger, such as a hormone or neurotransmitter, a molecule used for cellular signalling * Messenger RNA (mRNA), RNA that carries information from DNA to the ribosome sites of protein synthesis in a cell Electronics and computing *Instant messenger, a tool for online text communication **Facebook Messenger, an instant messaging service by Meta (Facebook) **Microsoft Messenger service, an instant me ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rosetta
Rosetta ( ) or Rashid (, ; ) is a port city of the Nile Delta, east of Alexandria, in Egypt's Beheira governorate. The Rosetta Stone was discovered there in 1799. Founded around the 9th century on the site of the ancient town of Bolbitine, Rosetta boomed with the decline of Alexandria following the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, only to wane in importance after Alexandria's revival. During the 19th century, it was a popular British tourist destination, known for its Ottoman mansions, citrus groves and relative cleanliness. Etymology The name of the town most likely comes from an Arabic name '' Rašīd'' (meaning "guide") and was transcribed and corrupted in numerous ways – the name ''Rexi'' was used by the Crusaders in Middle Ages and ''Rosetta'' or ''Rosette'' ("little rose" in Italian and French respectively) was used by the French at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt. The latter lent its name to the Rosetta Stone (), which was found by French sold ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rosetta (spacecraft)
''Rosetta'' was a space probe built by the European Space Agency that launched on 2 March 2004. Along with ''Philae'', its lander module, ''Rosetta'' performed a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). During its journey to the comet, the spacecraft performed flybys of Earth, Mars, and the asteroids 21 Lutetia and 2867 Šteins. It was launched as the third cornerstone mission of the ESA's Horizon 2000 programme, after ''SOHO' Cluster'' and '' XMM-Newton''. On 6 August 2014, the spacecraft reached the comet and performed a series of manoeuvers to eventually orbit the comet at distances of . On 12 November, its lander module ''Philae'' performed the first successful landing on a comet, though its battery power ran out two days later. Communications with ''Philae'' were briefly restored in June and July 2015, but due to diminishing solar power, ''Rosetta'' communications module with the lander was turned off on 27 July 2016. On 30 September 2016, the ''Rosett ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hayabusa(Muses-C) Sampling
was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to Sample return mission, return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis. ''Hayabusa'', formerly known as MUSES-C for Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft C, was launched on 9 May 2003 and Space rendezvous, rendezvoused with Itokawa in mid-September 2005. After arriving at Itokawa, ''Hayabusa'' studied the asteroid's shape, spin, topography, color, composition, density, and history. In November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and collected samples in the form of tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft on 13 June 2010. The spacecraft also carried a detachable minilander, ''MINERVA (spacecraft), MINERVA'', which failed to reach the surface. Mission firsts NASA's ''Galileo (spacecraft), Galileo'' and ''NEAR Shoemaker'' spacecraft had visited asteroids before, but the ''Hayabusa'' mission w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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25143 Itokawa
25143 Itokawa (provisional designation ) is a sub-kilometer near-Earth object of the Apollo group and also a potentially hazardous asteroid. It was discovered by the LINEAR program in 1998 and later named after Japanese rocket engineer Hideo Itokawa. The peanut-shaped S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 12.1 hours and measures approximately in diameter. Due to its low density and high porosity, Itokawa is considered to be a rubble pile, consisting of numerous boulders of different sizes rather than of a single solid body. It was the first asteroid to be the target of a sample-return mission, of the Japanese space probe ''Hayabusa'', which collected more than 1500 regolith dust particles from the asteroid's surface in 2005. Since its return to Earth in 2010, the mineralogy, petrography, chemistry, and isotope ratios of these particles have been studied in detail, providing insights into the evolution of the Solar System. Itokawa was the smallest asteroid to be photograph ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hayabusa
was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis. ''Hayabusa'', formerly known as MUSES-C for Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft C, was launched on 9 May 2003 and rendezvoused with Itokawa in mid-September 2005. After arriving at Itokawa, ''Hayabusa'' studied the asteroid's shape, spin, topography, color, composition, density, and history. In November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and collected samples in the form of tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft on 13 June 2010. The spacecraft also carried a detachable minilander, ''MINERVA'', which failed to reach the surface. Mission firsts NASA's ''Galileo'' and ''NEAR Shoemaker'' spacecraft had visited asteroids before, but the ''Hayabusa'' mission was the first one to return an asteroid sample to Earth for analysis. In addition ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stardust - Concepcao Artistica
Stardust may refer to: * A type of cosmic dust, composed of particles in space Entertainment Songs * “Stardust” (1927 song), by Hoagy Carmichael * “Stardust” (David Essex song), 1974 * “Stardust” (Lena Meyer-Landrut song), 2012 * “Stardust” (Mika song), 2012 * 'Stardust' (composition), by Jean-Michel Jarre and Armin van Buuren, 2015 * “Stardust”, by Carly Simon from ''Come Upstairs'', 1980 * “Stardust”, by Officium Triste from '' Ne Vivam'', 1997 * “Stardust”, by The Caretaker from ''We'll All Go Riding on a Rainbow'', 2003 * “Stardust”, by Galneryus from ''Reincarnation'', 2008 * “Stardust”, by Amaranthe from '' The Nexus'', 2013 * “Stardust”, by Gemini Syndrome from ''Lux'', 2013 * “Stardust”, by Delain from '' The Human Contradiction'', 2014 * “Stardust”, by IAMX from '' Alive In New Light'', 2018 * “Stardust”, by Neon Dreams, 2023 Albums * ''Stardust'' (Ron Carter album), 2001 * ''Stardust'' (Natalie Cole album), 1996 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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81P/Wild
Comet 81P/Wild, also known as Wild 2 (pronounced "vilt two") ( ), is a comet with a period of 6.4 years named after Swiss astronomer Paul Wild, who discovered it on January 6, 1978, using a 40-cm Schmidt telescope at Zimmerwald, Switzerland. For most of its 4.5 billion-year lifetime, Wild 2 probably had a more distant and circular orbit. In September 1974, it passed within of the planet Jupiter, the strong gravitational pull of which perturbed the comet's orbit and brought it into the inner Solar System. Its orbital period changed from 43 years to about 6 years, and its perihelion is now about . Orbit Prior to its encounter with Jupiter in 1974, the comet had an orbital period of around 43 years with an aphelion at around 25 AU and a perihelion of just under 5 AU. The encounter reduced the aphelion and perihelion to its present value of around 5 and 1.5 AU, respectively. Exploration NASA's Stardust Mission launched a spacecraft, named ''Stardust'', on February 7, 199 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stardust (spacecraft)
''Stardust'' was a 385-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on 7 February 1999. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and return them to Earth for analysis. It was the first sample return mission of its kind. En route to Comet Wild 2, it also flew by and studied the asteroid 5535 Annefrank. The primary mission was successfully completed on 15 January 2006 when the sample return capsule returned to Earth. A mission extension, codenamed ''NExT'', culminated in February 2011 with ''Stardust'' intercepting Comet Tempel 1, a small Solar System body previously visited by '' Deep Impact'' in 2005. ''Stardust'' ceased operations in March 2011. On 14 August 2014, scientists announced the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the ''Stardust'' capsule returned to Earth in 2006. Mission background History Beginning in the 1980s, scientists began seeking a dedicate ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cassini Assembly
Cassini may refer to: People * Cassini (surname) * Oleg Cassini (1913–2006), American fashion designer Cassini family: * Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), Italian mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer * Jacques Cassini (1677–1756), French astronomer, son of Giovanni Domenico Cassini * César-François Cassini de Thury (1714–1784), French astronomer and cartographer, son of Jacques Cassini * Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748–1845), French astronomer, son of César-François Cassini de Thury * Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781–1832), French botanist and naturalist, son of Jean-Dominique de Cassini Planetary science * Cassini's laws on the motion of the Moon * Cassini Division, a gap in the rings of Saturn * ''Cassini–Huygens'', the space mission to examine Saturn and its moons, of which the ''Cassini'' orbiter was a part * Cassini (Martian crater) * Cassini (lunar crater) * 24101 Cassini, an asteroid * 24102 Jacquescassini, another ast ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |