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Orbiters (space probe)
Dawn (spacecraft)Harold R. Kaufman built the first working ion thruster in 1959 at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio. This early engine used mercury as its propellant and…
Cassini–HuygensThe Cassini, Huygens mission began its life in 1982 when the European Science Foundation and the American National Academy of Sciences formed a working group.
NEAR ShoemakerJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in the mid-1990s. This robotic probe was designed to study asteroid…
Rosetta (spacecraft)The European Space Agency launched the Rosetta probe on the 2nd of March 2004 from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
MESSENGERthe 3rd of August 2004 marked the launch of MESSENGER from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. A Delta II rocket carried the spacecraft into a…
BepiColomboGiuseppe Bepi Colombo lived from 1920 to 1984. He worked as a scientist, mathematician and engineer at the University of Padua in Italy.