Space Probe - Research Article from World of Earth Science

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Space Probe - Research Article from World of Earth Science

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Aspace probe is any unmanned instrumented spacecraft designed to carry out physical studies of space environment. As distinguished from satellites orbiting Earth under the influence of gravitational attraction, a space probe is rocketed into space with sufficient speed to achieve escape velocity (the velocity needed to obtain parabolic or hyperbolic orbit) and to reach a trajectory aimed at a pre-selected target.

The first recorded mention of a possibility of an unmanned probe dates back to 1919, when American physicist R. H. Goddard (1882–1945) suggested a series of space based experiments. However, in large part to Goddard's advancements in rocketry, it took only 33 years for the concept of space experiment to reappear. In 1952, the term "space probe" was introduced by E. Burgess and C. A. Cross in a short paper presented to the British Interplanetary Society.

The space probe is used mostly for the acquisition of scientific data...

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