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.
The 10 greatest space probes ever flown. Dozens of spacecraft have been sent on interplanetary missions since the 1962 launch of the Mariner 2 mission to Venus, the first spacecraft to visit another planet. But some have made more of an impact-on science and the public imagination-than others.