The Deep Space series was continued by the Deep Space 2 probes, which were launched in January 1999 on Mars Polar Lander and were intended to strike the surface of Mars.

The European Space Operations Centre ( ESOC ) is responsible for controlling ESA satellites and space probes.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

The costs and risk of interplanetary travel receive a lot of publicity — spectacular examples include the malfunctions or complete failures of unmanned probes such as Mars 96, Deep Space 2 and Beagle 2 ( the article List of Solar System probes gives a full list ).

All Mariner-based probes after Mariner 10 used the Titan IIIE, Titan IV unmanned rockets or the Space Shuttle with a solid-fueled Inertial Upper Stage and multiple planetary flybys.

Since the dawn of the Space Age, close observation by probes has found that Earth and the other planets share characteristics such as volcanism, hurricanes, tectonics, and even hydrology.

* Space exploration-includes scientific investigations through manned spaceflight and space probes

These two space probes were built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and they were paid for by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), which also paid for their launchings from Cape Canaveral, Florida, their tracking, and everything else concerning the space probes.

Space probes made it possible to collect data from not only the visible light region, but in other areas of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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One of two Langmuir probes from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala on board ESA's space vehicle Rosetta ( spacecraft ) | Rosetta, due for a comet.

Category: European Space Agency space probes

In the 1970s, the United States began developing a new generation of reusable orbital spacecraft known as the Space Shuttle, and launched a range of unmanned probes.

It has since played an important role in the research of meteors, quasars, pulsars, masers and gravitational lenses, and was heavily involved with the tracking of space probes at the start of the Space Age.

Category: European Space Agency space probes

Category: European Space Agency space probes

Category: European Space Agency space probes

* Scott, one of two probes on NASA's Deep Space 2 mission ; named after polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott

Category: European Space Agency space probes

Space is populated with half a dozen spacefaring races, androids, probes, strange singing beings called Minstrels, and a number of random encounters, including the Enterprise.

Several new commercial Atari 7800 titles such as Beef Drop, B * nQ, Pac Man Collection, Combat 1990, Santa Simon, and Space War have been created and released.

The characters have made cameo appearances ( either visually or only voices ) and have been referenced in numerous television shows, such as Friends, Two and a Half Men, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Saturday Night Live ( TV Funhouse ), in films such as Airheads, Clueless, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Jackass 3D, and even parodied in children shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures, Regular Show and Arthur.

Significant progress in Big Bang cosmology have been made since the late 1990s as a result of advances in telescope technology as well as the analysis of data from satellites such as COBE, the Hubble Space Telescope and WMAP.

Entry-level IT workers and white-collar American workers alike have given Mike Judge's 1999 comedy film Office Space a cult following because of its heroic portrayal of ordinary office employees who become fed up with their jobs.

Click and Clack have also been featured in editorial cartoons, including one where a befuddled NASA engineer calls them to ask how to fix the Space Shuttle.

Hubble Space Telescope and MOST have also found or confirmed a few planets.

General relativity also predicts the existence of gravitational waves, which have since been observed indirectly ; a direct measurement is the aim of projects such as LIGO and NASA / ESA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna and various pulsar timing arrays.

NASA's Deep Space One was a very successful test of a prototype ion drive, which fired for a total of 678 days and enabled the probe to run down Comet Borrelly, a feat which would have been impossible for a chemical rocket.

Space elevators have also sometimes been referred to as " beanstalks ", " space bridges ", " space lifts ", " space ladders " or " orbital towers ".

Most known debris discs around other stars are fairly young, but the two images on the right, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in January 2006, are old enough ( roughly 300 million years ) to have settled into stable configurations.

The protagonist Louis Wu thinks this indicates the Kzinti in Known Space have bred intelligence out of their females.

Replacement was cost-prohibitive because of the expensive requirement for flight certification ; the legacy hardware used completed the expensive integration and certification requirement for flight, but any new equipment would have had to go through that entire process – requiring extensive tests of the new components in their new configurations – before a single unit could be used in the Space Shuttle program.

Other licensed works that have been incorporated into the Marvel Universe include Godzilla, 2001: A Space Odyssey ( in the character of Machine Man ), ROM: Spaceknight, the Micronauts, and the Shogun Warriors.

Its companion Fomalhaut b was thought to be the first extrasolar planet ever detected by a visible light image, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, but infrared observations have since retracted this claim: it is instead a spherical cloud of dust.

In the 27th century humans have colonised nearly 900 worlds, have living, sentient starships as well as the conventional kind, and are also living in Asteroid communities and in large, living Space stations.

The majority of the efforts have looked at embedding spatial database indices such as the Space Filling Curves ( SFCs ) including the Hilbert curves, Z-curves, k-d tree, MX-CIF Quad tree and R *- tree for managing, routing, and indexing of complex Grid resource query objects over DHT networks.

With infrared telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope, the " host galaxies " surrounding the quasars have been identified in some cases.

Dorn is the only Star Trek actor to have worked concurrently on the Next Generation films and the Deep Space Nine series, both of which are set in the same time period.

The informant is subsequently executed by the Dominion, causing Captain Benjamin Sisko, the commander of Deep Space Nine, to caution that Starfleet might not grant Worf his own command after this incident, but adds that had he been forced to choose between his duty and his wife, he would have done the same thing.

First appearing in the original Star Trek series in the 1966 episode " Balance of Terror ", they have since made appearances in all the main later Star Trek series: The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise.

Beginning in the 1990s, the Hubble Space Telescope yielded improved observations.

Recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope have yielded the major discovery of protoplanetary disks within the Orion Nebula, which have been dubbed proplyds.

In addition 2dFGRS yielded an independent estimate of the Hubble constant, which was in excellent agreement with value determined by the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project