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.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe, set to launch in 2018, will be humanity's first effort to touch the Sun, revolutionizing our understanding of the Sun's corona, the solar wind, and the greater heliosphere. 1  An artist's conception of the Parker Solar Probe taking leave of Earth.