swap_horiz STEREO-B Alternatives

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Explorer 1

Explorer 1 became the first United States satellite successfully placed in Earth orbit in 1958. Built by the Jet Propuls...

Cold War Satellite Nasa Earth Orbit

9.20 Excellent

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Mercury Friendship 7

Friendship 7 was the single-seat Mercury capsule that carried John Glenn on February 20, 1962. During the Mercury-Atlas...

Cold War Nasa First Us Orbit Crewed

9.20 Excellent

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Apollo Command/Service Module

NASA's Apollo Command/Service Module provided the main crewed spacecraft for travel to and from the Moon during the Cold...

Cold War Nasa Moon Crewed

9.20 Excellent

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Apollo Lunar Module

Built by Grumman for NASA's Apollo program, the Lunar Module was a specialized spacecraft for landing astronauts on the...

Cold War Nasa Moon Crewed

9.20 Excellent

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Opportunity rover

Opportunity was a NASA Mars Exploration Rover launched in 2003 and landed on Mars in 2004. Its solar-powered design carr...

Endurance Nasa Mars Rover

9.20 Excellent

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Curiosity rover

Launched in November 2011 and landed in Gale Crater in August 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover investigates whether ancient...

Nasa Mars Rover Current

9.20 Excellent

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Cassini

The Cassini spacecraft was a joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. It provided unprecedented...

Science Flagship Nasa Saturn

9.20 Excellent

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Ingenuity helicopter

The Ingenuity helicopter is a rotorcraft developed by NASA for exploration on Mars. It represents a groundbreaking achie...

Helicopter Nasa Mars First Flight

9.15 Excellent

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Perseverance rover

The Perseverance rover is an American spacecraft exploring Mars. It’s currently operating within Jezero Crater, searchin...

Nasa Mars Rover Astrobiology

9.10 Excellent

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Spirit rover

The Spirit rover was a robotic Mars exploration vehicle that successfully landed in Gusev Crater in January 2004 as part...

2000S Nasa Mars Rover

8.75 Great

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Sojourner rover

The Sojourner rover was a 11.5-kilogram, six-wheeled robotic vehicle delivered to Mars as part of NASA's Mars Pathfinder...

1990S Nasa Mars Rover

8.70 Great

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SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA spacecraft launched in 2010 to investigate the Sun's dynamic atmosphere....

Solar Nasa Observatory Current

8.65 Great

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ISEE-3 / ICE

ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer 3) was a NASA spacecraft launched on August 12, 1978, originally placed in a ha...

Science Nasa Comet Probe

8.45 Great

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MMS (Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission)

NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) is a four-spacecraft constellation launched on March 12, 2015, to study m...

Nasa Current Magnetosphere Probe

8.25 Great

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ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer)

The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is a NASA Explorer mission spacecraft launched in August 1997 to study matter fr...

Science Nasa Solar Wind L1

8.20 Great

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STEREO-A

STEREO-A (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory-Ahead) is one of two identical NASA solar observation probes launched...

Science Nasa Sun Probe

8.10 Great

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Wind spacecraft

Wind is a NASA science spacecraft launched on November 1, 1994, as part of the Global Geospace Science program. It was i...

Science Nasa Solar Wind L1

8.05 Great

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IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph)

IRIS is a NASA small explorer spacecraft launched on June 27, 2013, from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Pegasus XL r...

Nasa Observatory Current Sun

7.70 Good

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Solar Maximum Mission

The Solar Maximum Mission was a NASA spacecraft launched in 1980 to investigate solar phenomena, specifically targeting...

Solar Nasa Observatory Sun

7.65 Good

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CONTOUR

CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) was a NASA Discovery-program spacecraft launched on a Delta II rocket in July 2002 to make...

Science Nasa Comet Probe

3.10 Poor