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On 18 December, the Ariane 5GS made its final flight, delivering the Helios-IIB satellite into a Sun-synchronous orbit. The last orbital launch of the year was conducted eleven days later, on 29 December, when a Proton-M with a Briz-M upper stage launched the DirecTV-12 satellite.
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) is a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009. [2] [3] [4] WISE discovered thousands of minor planets and numerous star clusters .
This phase was successfully completed by January 2008 at NASA- Armstrong Flight Research Center. On December 18, 2009, the SOFIA aircraft performed the first test flight in which the telescope door was fully opened. This phase lasted for two minutes of the 79-minute flight.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. [6] [7] Data collected by LRO have been described as essential for planning NASA's future human and robotic missions to the Moon. [8] Its detailed mapping program is identifying safe landing sites, locating ...
The Kepler space telescope is a defunct space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. Named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, the spacecraft was launched into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. The principal investigator was William J. Borucki.
December 14, 2009 Operational: TESS: MIDEX-7 Explorer-95 April 18, 2018 Operational: ICON: MIDEX-8 Explorer-96 11 October 2019 Operational: SPHEREx: MIDEX-9 April 2025 In development: UVEX: 2030 In development
October 8, 2009 18:51 Delta II 7920-10C VAFB SLC-2W WorldView-2: 2,800 kg LEO: DigitalGlobe: Success: Earth imaging/reconnaissance 346 December 6, 2009 01:47 Delta IV-M+ (5,4) CCAFS SLC-37B USA-211 5,987 kg GTO: US Air Force: Success: First Delta IV Medium+ (5,4) launch, Communication satellite 347 December 14, 2009 14:09 Delta II 7320-10C VAFB ...
June 18, 2009, 17:32 Atlas V 401 CCAFS SLC-41: LRO/LCROSS: TLI: Success : NASA Lunar imager and spectroscopy spacecraft; Centaur upper stage was used as a lunar impactor to provide data for LCROSS. AV-018 September 8, 2009, 21:35 Atlas V 401 CCAFS SLC-41: Palladium At Night: GTO: NRO: Success
The project was announced in the fiscal 2009 budget year. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory designed and built the spacecraft, [11] which was launched on 12 August 2018. [2] It became the first NASA spacecraft named after a living (at the time) person, honoring physicist Eugene Newman Parker , professor emeritus at the ...
In 2009, the probe discovered and confirmed four new satellites. Its primary mission ended in 2008, when the spacecraft completed 74 orbits around the planet. In 2010, the probe began its first extended mission, the Cassini Equinox Mission.