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.
In short, been there and done that. 1  Many missions to Mars. 2  Messenger mission to Mercury just concluded. 3  Venus probes are old news. 4  Juno is scheduled to spend time at Jupiter shortly. 5  Cassini/Huygens has been exploring Saturn and it's system for years.  Pioneer and both Voyager probes also visited the outer planets.