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.
NASA. Spacecraft are designed to serve a variety of functions. The basic kinds of craft include sounding rockets, artificial satellites and space probes, space stations, and other vehicles for carrying humans through space. Sounding rockets carry scientific instruments into the upper atmosphere to collect data. An artificial satellite is a craft that orbits a larger.