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New Uranus Moon Discovered
A new moon orbiting the planet Uranus has been discovered in images taken by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. Voyager imaging team scientists at JPL found the small moon in long-exposure images of Uranus and its rings taken by Voyager 2’s narrow-angle camera in late December. Conclusive evidence of the satellite’s orbit was seen in pictures […]
Four New Satellites of Saturn Found
Dr. Stephen P. Synnott of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has found evidence for the existence of four, and possibly as many as six, new satellites of Saturn, using data from the Voyager 2 Saturn encounter. The discoveries bring the number of known Saturnian satellites to between 21 and 23. The two “possible” satellites were seen […]
Radio Contact with Voyager 1 Re-Established
Contact with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft was re established tonight following series of commands transmitted from Earth, ordering Voyager to re-orient itself in space with its antenna pointed to Earth. It had been determined that loss of radio contact with the craft on Thursday was due to the spacecraft’s communication antenna being pointed away from […]
Radio Contact with Voyager 1 Lost
December 13, 1979: Radio contact with the Voyager 1 spacecraft was lost late Thursday afternoon following maneuver to refine its flight path to Saturn, it was announced by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Hours later very weak signal was detected by the tracking station in Spain. The spacecraft, 660 million miles from Earth, has been commanded […]
Voyager 1 Light-Sensing Instrument Non-operational
Project officials report light-sensing instrument aboard NASA’s Voyager 1, that had difficulty during encounter with the planet Jupiter March 5th, has been confirmed as no longer being able to record useful data. Tests conducted last week indicate that the light sensitivity of the instrument, called photopolarimeter, has almost reached zero. The photopolarimetry is one of […]
Voyager Will Carry Earth Sounds Record
On the chance that someone is out there, NASA has approved tie placement of a phonograph record on each of two planetary spacecraft being readied far launch next month to the outer reaches of the solar system. The recording, called “Sounds of Earth” was placed Friday (July 29) aboard the first of two Voyager spacecraft […]
Surveyor 2 Impacts Moon
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Surveyor II spacecraft impacted the moon near the crater Copernicus on September 22, 1966.
Surveyor 1 Lands on the Moon
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Surveyor I spacecraft made a perfect low-speed, three-point landing on the moon on June 1, 1966, after a 63-hour, 36-minute flight from Cape Kennedy.
Excerpt from the ‘Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs’
President John F. Kennedy Delivered in person before a joint session of Congress May 25, 1961