It would give him an opportunity to take the measure of his chief adversary in the cold war, to try to probe Mr. Khrushchev's intentions and to make clear his own views.

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.

He suggested " Pioneer " as the name of the probe since " the Army had already launched and orbited the Explorer satellite and their Public Information Office was identifying the Army as ' Pioneers in Space ,'" and by adopting the name the Air Force would " make a ' quantum jump ' as to who really the ' Pioneers in space.

* On the other hand, if we could probe very high energies where quantum effects take over, then every one of the infinitely many unknown parameters would begin to matter, and we could make no predictions at all.

Eleven months later, the probe would fail.

Had STS-51-L been successful, Challengers next mission would have been the deployment of the Ulysses probe with the Centaur to study the polar regions of the Sun.

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna ( LISA ) probe had been planned to be launched in 2025 to directly detect gravitational waves and would have been able to measure relative displacements with a resolution of 20 picometres over a distance of 5 million kilometres, yielding a strain sensitivity of better than 1 part in 10 < sup > 20 </ sup >.

The probe would outlaw the Communist Party and require loyalty oaths for teachers.

Early in 2002, Blur recorded a song that would be played by European Space Agency's Beagle 2 lander once it touched down ; however, attempts to locate the probe after it landed on Mars were fruitless.

Of course, in case of a serious malfunction, such as in all of the space probe's radio transmitters or receivers, then that would have been the end of the long mission ( to four planets ), since there was not a second space probe to fill the gap.

Originally a United States partner probe was planned that would accompany Giotto, but this fell through due to budget cuts at NASA.

The idea was for Japanese probes and the pre-existing American probe International Cometary Explorer to make long distance measurements, followed by the Russian Vegas which would locate the nucleus, and the resulting information sent back would allow Giotto to precisely target very close to the nucleus.

The sensor was designed with two photocells which would be triggered by the light of the Moon when the probe was within about 30, 000 km of the Moon.

The sensor was designed with two photocells which would be triggered by the light of the Moon when the probe was within about 30, 000 km of the Moon.

She tried to probe into her inner-self and declared that she would sing only those songs which have a meaning for her.

The 6. 7-year transit was slightly longer than the six years needed for a Hohmann transfer, but cut the total amount of delta V needed to about 2 km / s, so that the large and heavy Cassini probe was able to reach Saturn, which would not have been possible in a direct transfer even with the Titan IV, the largest launch vehicle available at the time.

Washington continued to probe the New York area, until August 14, when he received a letter from de Grasse that he was headed to Virginia with 29 warships and 3, 200 men, but would only remain there until October 14.

A whole society of uploads can be emulated by a computer on a very small spaceship, similar to a space probe, that would consume much less fuel and may accelerate much more than space travels for biological humans.

The probe itself would consist of a mesh of extremely fine carbon wires about 100 m across, with the wires spaced the same distance apart as the 3-mm wavelength of the microwaves that will be used to push it.

Forward proposed that the wires would incorporate nanoscale computer circuitry, sensors, microwave power collection systems and microwave radio transmitters fabricated on the wire surfaces, giving the probe data collection and transmission capability.

Being distributed across the entire sail, no " rigging " is needed, as would be the case if the mission electronics were placed in a separate probe that was pulled by the sail.

The antenna uses a microwave lens 560 km in diameter, would transmit 56 GW of power, and would accelerate the probe to 10 % of the speed of light.

The probe would cruise without power for decades until it finally approached the target star, at which point the antenna which launched it would again target its beam on Starwisp.

* 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

** Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

* The 16th robotic probe to land on the planet was assigned to study the north pole, and the 17th probe the south pole. senses throughout

The intended mission of the probe is not known, it was speculated the probe was designed to land on the Moon with an instrument package based on the trajectory and on the later attempted landings of the Luna 5 and Luna 6 spacecraft and successful landing of Luna 9.

Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth.

The Huygens probe, carried to Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini probe, was specifically designed to survive landing on land and on liquid.

The Hayabusa probe made several attempts to land on 25143 Itokawa with mixed success, including a failed attempt to deploy a rover.

The probe crash-landed on Venus on March 1, 1966 becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

On land, Black-tailed Godwits probe into soft ground and also pick prey items from the surface.

" According to the Associated Press, Murkowski bought the land from two developers tied to the Ted Stevens probe.

* December 25-The Cassini probe successfully drops the Huygens probe, sending it onto a trip to land on Saturn's moon Titan.

The small thrusters were fired on December 9, moving the closest approach distance to 1000 km so that the probe would not inadvertently impact on Mars and possibly contaminate the planet with Earth bacteria, since the orbiter had not been intended to land and was therefore not properly sterilized.

The probe landed ( in the early 1950s, although the date is non-specific ) in Princeton, New Jersey, where it soon appeared outside the window of Albert Einstein and communicated its mission to him through telepathy, along with precise details of where Kal-El's rocket would land ( near Smallville, Kansas ), several days later.

* March 1-Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

* Rosetta, an ambitious ESA mission to orbit and for the first time in history land a probe on a comet, 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, to study it in detail as it enters the inner solar system.

It was also the first probe to land on another planet.

He is currently living in a dilapidated house on his farm, 13 km from King William's Town, which he held onto despite Judge Willem Heath's probe into the Ciskei government land deals.

Probe Ike, named after Isaac Newton, was the third and final probe to land.

* Venera 10 became the second space probe to land on the planet Venus.

It proposes some new missions, such as a cometary mission, an extended Cassini mission ( including three probes ; one for the study of the atmosphere of Saturn, one atmospheric Titan probe and one to land on Titan ) and a Mars sample return mission.