• 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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    Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41), sometimes referred to as "Slick Forty-one," is one of two launch sites at the Integrate-Transfer-Launch Complex in Cape...
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    (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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    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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    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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    Space Launch Complex 2 (SLC-2) is an active rocket launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California, USA. It consists of two launch pads: Space...
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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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    complex; NASA's Europa Clipper became the new third-largest probe upon its launch in 2024. The orbiter had a mass of 2,150 kg (4,740 lb), the probe 350 kg...
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    Mariner 3 (category Derelict space probes)
    Mariner 3 (Mariner C-2, together with Mariner 4 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was one of two identical deep-space probes designed and built by the Jet Propulsion...
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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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    Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) is a launch complex located at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Located south of the Missile Row launch range...
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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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    or never used sites Kennedy Space Center, operated by NASA, has two launch complexes on Merritt Island comprising four pads—two active, one under lease...
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    12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1     Launch Complex 12 (LC-12) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida was a launch pad used by Atlas rockets and missiles...
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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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    Launch sites at Vandenberg Space Force Base 7km 4.3miles 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1     Space Launch Complex 5 (SLC-5) is a decommissioned...
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    Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), sometimes referred to as "Slick Forty," is one of two launch pads located at the Integrate-Transfer-Launch Complex in Cape...
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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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    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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    Hayabusa (redirect from Muses-C)
    material than specified. On 9 May 2003 04:29:25 UTC, MUSES-C was launched by an M-V rocket, and the probe was named "Hayabusa". Ion thruster checkout started...
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    Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) is a rocket launch site at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida, United States. The site and its collection...
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    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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  • 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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    "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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    Space Launch Complex 37 (SLC-37), previously Launch Complex 37 (LC-37), is a launch complex on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Originally...
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  • 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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    Pioneer 4 (category Spacecraft launched in 1959)
    uncrewed spacecraft launched as part of the Pioneer program on a lunar flyby trajectory and into a heliocentric orbit making it the first probe of the United...
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    10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1     Space Launch Complex 17 (SLC-17), previously designated Launch Complex 17 (LC-17), was a launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force...
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    Launch Readiness Date". dragonfly.jhuapl.edu. APL. 28 November 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023. M. E. McQuaide; D. H. Ellison; J. A. Englander; M. C...
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