50 Years of Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft: It All Started with Satellite Transit 4A

50 Years of Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft: It All Started with Satellite Transit 4A
Consider this a nuclear blast from the past – all the way back to the early days of U.S. space missions, when the first satellite to use a radioactive power source launched into orbit.
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NASA’S Stardust Spacecraft Completes Comet Flyby

NASA’S Stardust Spacecraft Completes Comet Flyby
by Staff Writers Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 15, 2011 Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., watched as data downlinked from the Stardust spacecraft indicated it completed its closest approach with comet Tempel 1. An hour after closest approach, the spacecraft turned to point its large, high-gain antenna [...]

NASA GLORY Spacecraft

NASA GLORY Spacecraft
NASA’s GLORY satellite is scheduled for launch on February 23rd, 2011 from Vandenberg Air Force Base , California, to monitor the Earth’s atmosphere. The NASA GLORY spacecraft is a low Earth orbit observation satellite that will collect data on aerosol properties in the atmosphere, as well as the solar irradiance from the Sun. [...]