Gallery of Space Probes

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		Lavochkin Association's Marsokhod and Mars '96 small station. Image taken at the Paris Air Show in 1995.
		A different Marsokhod design, also by Lavochkin Association and McDonnell-Douglas. Note the manipulator arm in front.
		Lavochkin Association's Mars '96 small station lander. This is an enlargement of the first image of the gallery.
		European Space Agency's Huygens Titan Lander. This picture was taken at the IAF Congress in Turin in 1997.
		Model of the japanese Lunar-A probe, scheduled for launch in 2002. Also at IAF.
		Mockup of the Mars Pathfinder Lander. Also at IAF.
		Walkie 6.1 walking Mars robot, built in cooperation by Alenia and the Turin Politechnic at IAF
		Walkie in a dangerous attitude
		Ooops... don't try this on Mars!
		Viking Lander, visible at NASM. Picture taken in 1986.
		Surveyor Lunar Lander. Also visible at NASM. This particular probe is in the same configuration as Surveyor-7, i.e. with alpha-ray spectrometer (semicircular object at 7.30 o'clock) and SMSS robotic arm.
		Helios German solar probe. Two of these probes were launched in heliocentric orbit in the Seventies.  Picture taken in 1988 at the Deutsche Museum, Munich.
		A prototype of a two stage liquid fueled Mars Ascent Vehicle  (MAV). This picture was taken at JPL Open House 1999. Note, however, that the latest iteration of the Mars Sample Return Mission used a two stage solid fueled  MAV.
		Full size mock up of the Magellan Venus Radar Orbiter. Also at JPL.
		Voyager full size mock up at the Von Karman Auditorium (JPL).
		Close-up of the Voyager body with thermal louvers and golden disk
		Galileo model. From top: high gain antenna (stuck), sunshade, upper body. Also at JPL.
		The coolest probe on Mars! Sojourner rover. Also at JPL.
		Cassini spacecraft, also at JPL. Cassini is carrying the Huygens Titan Lander.
		Vostok space launcher. This launcher took Luna-1, -2 and -3 in space in 1959. Visible in Moscow.
		Vostok space launcher. Detail of the 20 combustion chambers.
		A mockup of the European Beagle II Mars lander. Image taken at the Paris Air Show in 2003.
		Another view of the Beagle II mockup
		A close up of the Beagle II PAW robotic arm end effector
		A mockup of the Rosetta comet lander
		Another view of the Rosetta lander mockup
		A scale model of the Rosetta comet orbiter
		A scale model of the European SMART-1 lunar probe
		Another view of the SMART-1 model
		A view of the SMART-1 ion engine
		A model of the SMART-1 ion engine
		A scale model of the European Mars Express probe
		An image of the European Nanokhod planetary minirover
		Two different Japanese lunar rover designs
		A mockup of a second generation  Soviet Venera probe. Image taken at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace at Le Bourget (Paris)
		A mockup of the Venera-7 lander
		Another view of the Venera-7 lander
		A close up of the Venera probe bus
		A mockup of the Soviet E-6S probe, flown as Luna-10
		A mockup of the Soviet E-6 probe, the first to land on the Moon as Luna-9
		Another view of the E-6 probe
		A (rather crude) mockup of the Lunokhod lunar rover
		The London Science Museum ESA Huygens Titan lander model
		The Huygens model, complete with parachute
		Another view of the Science Museum Huygens model
		Another view of Huygens, the first (and so far only) probe to land on Saturn's moon Titan
		The UK failed Beagle 2 Mars lander
		Another view of Beagle 2
		The end effector of Beagle 2's PAW robotic arm
		Another view of Beagle 2
		Beagle 2
		Beagle 2's PAW and the amazing "mole" penetrator

Last updated June 2, 2006
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