deep space probes

  1. N

    Cosmos 482 (Venera 9) Probe Near future Reentry

    A Venera space-probe was launched in the early 1970s shortly after Venera 8 was launched and if it had successfully been injected into a heliocentric orbit it would've been Venera 9 but instead failed to leave orbit with the Soviets renaming it Cosmos 482 in an effort to sae face. It's orbit has...
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    • 1970s 1972 2025 cccp cold war cosmos 428 deep space probes early 21st century late 20th century reentry vehicle soviet union space age space race venera 8 venus
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  2. Grey Havoc

    Event Horizon (1997)

    An appropriate subject for the night that is in it, methinks. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlnER8SxfQ View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjmQXDhyps
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1997 2047 alternate history cosmic horror deep space probes halloween horror late 1990s late 20th century libera te tutemet ex inferis movie national security agency neptune popular culture post-cold war science fiction u.s.a.c. event horizon u.s.a.c. lewis & clark united states us aerospace command
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    • Forum: The Bar
  3. Flyaway

    Hera - ESA

    View: https://twitter.com/esa_tech/status/1660591274930339840 View: https://twitter.com/esa_tech/status/1660591282329092096 View: https://twitter.com/esa_tech/status/1660591289627299843 View: https://twitter.com/esa_tech/status/1660591296686309376 View: https://youtu.be/MErloMuo55o
    • Flyaway
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    • binary asteroid system deep space probes didymos dimorphos european space agency european space research and technology centre planetary defence planetary defence office (esa)
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  4. Flyaway

    Mariner 4

    New Scott Manley video. Computers Were So Slow Scientists 'Painted' The First Close Up Image Of Mars View: https://youtu.be/nSQlM6yGh7k
    • Flyaway
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    • cold war deep space probes jet propulsion laboratory mariner r mars nasa space age space race united states venus
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  5. Grey Havoc

    Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator [LOFTID] (NASA)

    https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/11/10/1925239/nasa-launched-an-inflatable-flying-saucer-then-landed-it-in-the-ocean https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/10/world/polar-satellite-inflatable-heat-shield-launch-scn/index.html...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • bernard kutter cold war ii deep space probes mars nasa nasa ames research center nasa langley research center nasa space technology mission directorate noaa technology demonstration missions program united states
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  6. KHambsch

    Plasma Magnetic sail

    I think this propulsion concept fell between the cracks at the time the Phase I and II NIAC reports were released in I believe circa 2007. To start with, this is a type of sail which exploits the solar wind, is considered a drag device...like a sailboat in the wind. For this reason I'm not...
    • KHambsch
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    • 2000s deep space probes nasa
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    • Forum: Propulsion
  7. Michel Van

    2001: A Space-Time Odyssey

    Introduction: This was a Alternate Cold War story publish in Alternate History.com in 2015 Sadly over years thing went not so well and my co-authors lost interest or had not time anymore. I have decided to reworking, re-writing, re-editing this Alternate History for this Forum as a Solo...
  8. Flyaway

    JHUAPL Interstellar Probe Study

    Hope this is the right section for this. https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2021/spring/apl-interstellar-probe/
    • Flyaway
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    • deep space probes johns hopkins university applied physics lab nasa solar oberth maneuver
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  9. uk 75

    Could the US have got a crewed Mars Mission in the 80s?

    We have discussed the pros and cons of Stephen Baxter's novel "Voyage" about a US crew landing on Mars in 1985. But could a mission like that have been done with the technology available to NASA?
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    • 1960s 1970s 1980s alternate history cold war computing deep space probes manned mars nasa nuclear rockets space age space race space transportation system united states
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  10. A

    JPL "spare" planetary program, in the 70's.

    As said in the title... all the robotic planetary missions launched in the 70's left a spare spacecraft on the ground (and later, at the NASM aerospace museum). There were good reasons for that - providing spares - ground testing - backup in case of failures (Mariner 8...) Soooo ...by 1978...
  11. QuadroFX

    Russian nuclear propulsion spacecraft "Nuklon"

    Nuclear propulsion spacecraft "Nuklon" / "Нуклон" / "Nucleon" also known as TEM / ТЭМ ( Transport and Energy Module ) / Транспортно-Энергетический Модуль / Transportno-Energeticheskiy Modul' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEM_(nuclear_propulsion) The assembly process has started! :cool...
    • QuadroFX
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    • 21st century deep space probes nuclear power nuclear rockets roscosmos russia russian federation
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  12. Flyaway

    Neptune Odyssey: Neptune-Triton orbiter mission

    Details of this proposed mission on the links below: Attached is a presentation detailing the mission from: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/exoplanets2020/presentations/Rymer.pdf
  13. Flyaway

    Europa Clipper

    Time this has its own thread. https://spacenews.com/europa-clipper-seeking-savings-as-cost-reserves-plummet/
    • Flyaway
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    • 2000s 2010s 2020s deep space probes jet propulsion laboratory late 1990s nasa nuclear power
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  14. Grey Havoc

    Program-2005 (Soviet Union)

    Came across a couple of documents that mentioned this abortive late 1980s/early 1990s plan for the future of the Soviet (civil) space program out to the year 2005. Included preparatory work & supporting projects, such as Mars '94 and a sample return mission in 1998, for the Mars Expedition...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1989 1990 2005 cccp civil space program cold war deep space probes general machine building mars mars expedition ministry program 2005 project 2005 soviet union space age space race ussr
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  15. Flyaway

    Dragonfly mission to Titan

    Awesome news in my book this decision. Official website: http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/index.php
    • Flyaway
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    • deep space probes nasa nuclear powered aircraft saturn
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  16. FighterJock

    BepiColombo-Mercury Space Probe

    The BepiColombo space probe is heading towards Mercury after a successful launch at 02:45 BST. It will take seven years for BepiColombo to reach Mercury. BBC News article. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45838991 And this is the full launch of BepiColombo from the Arianespace...
  17. Orionblamblam

    JPL Interstellar Precursor

    The first of the "Thousand Astronomical Unit" space probes designed from the late 70's into the 80's. Nuclear electric propulsion would send the craft on a fifty-year mission into interplanetary space to test technologies for a future true interstellar mission, for deep-space science and to map...
    • Orionblamblam
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    • 1970s 1980s deep space probes interstellar space jet propulsion laboratory nasa nuclear power nuclear rockets nuclear-electric propulsion solar system stellar cartography thousand astronomical unit
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  18. Flyaway

    Due to concerns about engine, Juno to remain in elongated Jupiter orbit

    The Leros engine has commonalities with other engines that have called issues including MUOS 5 I believe. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/due-to-concerns-about-engine-juno-to-remain-in-elongated-jupiter-orbit/
    • Flyaway
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    • deep space probes early 2020s jet propulsion laboratory late 2010s nasa
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  19. Michel Van

    Gamma Centaur aka Centaur Junior

    Found on SDASM archive on Flickr Album Convair had Study in 1960 a Three Stage Atlas Centaur with smaller Centaur as Third Stage
  20. Grey Havoc

    Russian Space Program

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-space-delays-idUSKBN1590Y6
    • Grey Havoc
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    • anti-satellite asat cccp cold war ii deep space probes post-cold war roscosmos russian federation satellite soviet union space probes space weapons
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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