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.
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.