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.
Another ground-breaking use of space robotics is the Rosetta spacecraft, a 10 year mission launched in 2004 to intercept a comet and land a probe on. The mission would take Rosetta into deep space, over five times the Earthâs distance from the Sun.