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.
5. Atmospheric Probes: These space probes remain in, or transit through the atmosphere of the planet or moon and study weather patterns and atmospheric peculiarities until its end. The Huygens probe to Titan acted as an atmospheric probe and then a lander once it was on the surface of Saturn's moon.
12:10PM BST 22 Jul 2009. Comments. Here are the top 15 space spin-offs : 1. CAT scanner: this cancer-detecting technology was first used to find imperfections in space components. 2. Computer microchip: modern microchips descend from integrated circuits used in the Apollo Guidance Computer.