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interplanetary probe

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interplanetary probe [¦in·tər′plan·ə‚ter·ē ′prōb]
(aerospace engineering)
An instrumented spacecraft that flies through the region of space between the planets.


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s Pasadena-area facility, which manages space missions from the Mars rovers to the Cassini interplanetary probe.
NASA usually emphasizes big, individually managed projects, such as interplanetary probes, whose completion depends on annual appropriations from Congress for each satellite.
For Benton and ABLE, career highlights include the magnetometer boom for the Galileo Interplanetary Probe and, most recently, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission mast -- the longest structure to deploy in space.
 
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