Dictionary definition: space probe

Article: Soviets lose space probe
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 4, 1988 ;     291 words ...MOSCOW The Soviet Union has abandoned attempts to re-establish radio contact with its unmanned Mars space probe Phobos 1, the Soviet news agency Tass said on Thursday. Contact was lost on September 2. The backup probe, Phobos 2, was continuing ...

Article: The space probe's lethal cargo. (NASA is planning ...
The Nation;  January 23, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... 1990, each carrying a space probe utilizing what scientists ... lung cancer. The 1989 space probe, Project Galileo ... radioactive isotope. The 1990 space probe, Project Ulysses ... United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom ...

Article: THE SPACE RACE.(efforts to achieve much in space between US and ...
Junior Scholastic;  May 7, 2001 ;     700+ words ...In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial ... October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union stunned the world ... still lagged behind the Soviet Union. Just one month after ... Soviets launched the first space probe to land on the moon ...

Article: Tight Budget Pinching Space Probe; European Agency ...
The Washington Post;  November 24, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... NASA's high-priority Cassini space probe to Saturn and its moon Titan if ... equivalent to dollars) for a space probe and scientific instruments. The ... cooperative missions with the Soviet Union and other nations, an ESA official ...

Article: China develops next-generation rocket to expedite space ...
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  July 3, 2008 ;     584 words ... ... generation rocket to expedite space probe Beijing, Jul 3 (PTI) China ... to contribute in the nation's space probe. China successfully put two manned ... after the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union. Two years later, it sent two ...

Article: Mishaps in space.(Mars Climate Orbiter is latest space ...
The Economist (US);  October 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... gone wrong over the years. Of the probes launched by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s, six failed even to leave earth orbit ... moon. And Mars 96, launched after years of delays by the Soviet Union's successor, Russia, failed to leave earth orbit. Meanwhile ...

Article: Space probe secrets put on Internet
The Independent - London;  June 12, 1999 ;     561 words ... ... capsule at the top of the rocket, which appears to draw on the 35-year-old design for the Soyuz rocket developed by the Soviet Union in the days of the "space race". The capsule includes an escape tower, which contains rockets that would fire to separate ...