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.
This article is about the Mars lander. For the Star Trek spacecraft, see Phoenix (Star Trek). For the Space: 1999 spacecraft, see List of Space: 1999 vehicles Â§ Phoenix (formerly known as Uranus Probe). For other uses, see Phoenix (disambiguation).