Font Size: Welcome to the Camarillo Airport. The Camarillo Airport (CMA), as it is known today, was the former Oxnard Air Force Base. The base was established in the early 1950âs for coastal defense and a variety of military aircraft operated here until 1969 when the base was deactivated.
2. Flyby Probe: In this type of space probe the robotic space explorer collects information in the form of images and other telemetry as it flies very close by the celestial object. NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 to Jupiter and beyond are an example of flyby probes. 3.
Voyager 2. Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune.