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The SPACEWARN Bulletin: A COSPAR Publication of the NSSDC/WDC-SI
The Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) hosts the S3C Active Archive, which consists of web services f or survey and high resolution data, trajectories, and scientific models.
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission is the first of NASA's Discovery missions and the first mission ever to go into orbit around an asteroid. The spacecraft is equipped with an X-ray/gamma ray spectrometer, a near-infrared...
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas Shoemaker/Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter CD-ROMs available From July 16 through July 22, 1994, fragments of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter, with dramatic effect. This was the first...
A NASA press conference summarizing results from the Mars Pathfinder mission was held on June 29, 1998. More details are available in the press release Mars Pathfinder impacted the surface on July 4 at 16:57 UT (12:57 PM EDT) at a velocity...
NASA's Viking Mission to Mars was composed of two spacecraft, Viking 1 and Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander. The primary mission objectives were to obtain high resolution images of the Martian surface, characterize the...
The Galileo mission consists of two spacecraft: an orbiter and an atmospheric probe. Launched during the STS 34 flight of the Atlantis orbiter, the two spacecraft were kicked out of Earth orbit by an inertial upper stage (IUS) rocket, sending them careening through the inner solar system. The...
Information about Voyager and Voyager data archived at NSSDCA
The Magellan spacecraft was launched on May 4, 1989, arrived at Venus on August 10, 1990 and was inserted into a near-polar elliptical orbit with a periapsis altitude of 294 km at 9.5 deg. N. Radio contact with Magellan was lost on October 12, 1994. The primary objectives of the Magellan mission...