Northern Light was a concept mission for a robotic mission to Mars that would consist of a lander and a rover, being studied by a consortium of Canadian...

passenger train Northern Light (spacecraft), a concept mission for a robotic mission to Mars Northern Lights (cannabis), a strain of cannabis Northern Lights (carbon...

also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly...

dark matter and galaxies and measure how these properties change as the spacecraft looks further back in time. Highly precise images are required to provide...

becoming the first spacecraft to do so. It successfully completed its primary mission in 2012. Following two mission extensions, the spacecraft used the last...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study...

tens of micrograms. The Pioneer 10 and Helios spacecraft observations in the 1970s revealed zodiacal light to be scattered by the interplanetary dust cloud...

mythological bird that is repeatedly reborn from its own ashes. The Phoenix spacecraft contains several previously built components. The lander used was the...

separations of the spacecraft, a location can be determined, for follow-up with other telescopes. Because gamma rays travel at the speed of light, wide separations...

to precisely measure the isotopes of the light elements. Instruments of the Genesis spacecraft The spacecraft in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility...

The Magellan spacecraft was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA of the United States, on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of...

observed by the spacecraft on December 5, 2010, in Saturn's northern hemisphere. The storm is the first of its kind to be observed by a spacecraft in orbit around...

orbit around Ceres. Dawn is the first spacecraft to have orbited two extraterrestrial bodies, the first spacecraft to have visited either Vesta or Ceres...

9 launch vehicle in reusable mode (as of 2018[update]). The relatively light vehicle would re-enter the atmosphere and land on a runway, being protected...

speed of light. In each case saving fuel for slowing down halves the maximum speed. The concept of using a magnetic sail to decelerate the spacecraft as it...

67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). During its journey to the comet, the spacecraft performed flybys of Earth, Mars, and the asteroids 21 Lutetia and 2867...

Dragonfly is a planned NASA spacecraft mission to send a robotic rotorcraft to the surface of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. It is planned to be launched...

no longer serve a useful function. These include derelict spacecraft (nonfunctional spacecraft and abandoned launch vehicle stages), mission-related debris...

50 miles, as its Soviet operators struggled to control their failing spacecraft. In secret meetings, Soviet officials warned their US counterparts that...

half-hour so the light curves were especially useful for studying these types of astronomical events. On October 30, 2018, after the spacecraft ran out of fuel...

A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made...

those in antiquity, telescopic observations, and from visiting spacecraft. Spacecraft have performed various flybys, orbits, and landings on Venus, including...

tracking system MANTIS (spacecraft), "Main-belt Asteroid and NEO Tour with Imaging and Spectroscopy", a proposed NASA spacecraft that would flyby multiple...

Colorado. The spacecraft is derived from the Ball Aerospace & Technologies RS-300 spacecraft architecture, particularly the NEXTSat spacecraft built for the...

ranging due to the shorter wavelength of light, and additionally allows the angle between the two spacecraft to be measured as well as their separation...

propulsion module will bring the spacecraft to the nominal orbit with perigee altitude of around 5000 km. The SMILE spacecraft consists of a platform provided...

stationkeeping of spacecraft. Lidar has also been used for atmospheric studies from space. Short pulses of laser light beamed from a spacecraft can reflect...

Mace Kelley, Mikayla (April 25, 2022). "NASA gives green light for OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to visit another asteroid". University of Arizona News. Retrieved...

development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the crewed lunar Artemis program, the Commercial Crew spacecraft, and the planned Lunar...

front of their host stars via the transit method. Since the launch of the spacecraft, though, both the Kepler team at NASA and independent researchers have...