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the three types are flyby,orbiter, and lander.Or the impactor which is rarely ever used. sources-my astronomy text book
Yes, the New Horizons spacecraft made a flyby of Pluto in July 2015, providing the first close-up images and data of the distant dwarf planet.
A space probe is a scientific space exploration mission in which a robotic spacecraft leaves the gravity well of Earth and gathers information about other bodies. So a satellite is also a sapce probe. There are many such probes. The first probe was Mars1 Mars2 was the first probe to actually land on Mars. The other probes that have landed on Mars are Mars3, Mars6, Viking1, Viking2, Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity, Phoenix. Check the related link for a full list
The main difference between a flyby spacecraft and an orbiter is the guidance computer programming: which causes a flyby to go by the planet and take pictures and other readings allowed in the limited time of the single pass, while an orbiter is captured into an orbit about the planet where it has a much longer period to take pictures and other readings.
A flyby mission requires less fuel and a shorter duration of operation compared to an orbiter mission. Since a flyby does not need to enter orbit around Pluto, it can be completed with fewer resources and less time, resulting in lower overall costs.
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It depends on what kind of spacecraft we're talking about. There's this type of spacecraft called 'Flyby' Spacecraft. Flyby Spacecrafts are those who cannot observe distant objects. They would just flyby planets, asteroids, or whatever, and avoid being caught by a planet's magnetic field, or orbit. Please be more specific :)
No spacecraft has ever landed on Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft did a flyby (2015-2016) but did not land on the surface.
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The New Horizons spacecraft, which completed its Pluto flyby in 2016.
the three types are flyby,orbiter, and lander.Or the impactor which is rarely ever used. sources-my astronomy text book
the three types are flyby,orbiter, and lander.Or the impactor which is rarely ever used. sources-my astronomy text book
NASA has sent spacecraft to Jupiter a total of nine times. These missions include flyby missions like Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo orbiter, Juno orbiter, and the upcoming Europa Clipper mission.
Yes, NASA has sent a couple of unmanned probes to examine Mercury, Mariner 10 which did a flyby and the MESSENGER orbiter.