Spacecraft Illustrations

Artistic renderings of various spacecraft in orbit around Earth, showcasing technology and exploration themes against deep space backgrounds.

TESS Spacecraft, illustration
TESS Spacecraft, illustration
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Geostationary orbit satellite above the Earth pointed toward the rising sun, 3D render
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Artist concept of Apollo Soyuz
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This illustration depicts NASA's Juno spacecraft approaching Jupiter.
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This computer-generated image depicts the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft. The JIRAM instrument measures heat radiated from the planet at an infrared wavelength of around 5 microns.
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An artist's concept showing the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is seen orbiting the moon as it prepares to fire its maneuvering thrusters to maintain a safe orbital altitude.
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Hypersonic Missile over the Earth Hypersonic missile or rocket over the Earth. Blue Moon in the sky. Elements of this image furnished by NASA Copyright: xZoonar.com/AlainxdexMaximyx 11901114
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This image is a single frame from a computer animation, which begins with a global view of the planet Mars created from images by NASA's Mars Odyssey. Color is used to emphasize the Martian topographic, andesite, and basalt compositional differences.
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3D rendering of an unmanned spacecraft approaching the planet Saturn
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New Horizons spacecraft over dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon.
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The International Space Station transits near Saturn.
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Planet earth in a test tube
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This illustration depicts NASA's Juno spacecraft soaring over Jupiter's south pole.
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Artist's concept of NASA's Jason 1 spacecraft from December, 2002.
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Artist's Concept of Earth Return Orbiter Releasing Capsule containing Martian Samples. The Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) is one of the flight missions making up the Mars Sample Return campaign to bring martian rock and atmospheric samples back to Earth. The ESA orbiter would be the first interplanetary spacecraft to capture samples in orbit and make a return trip between Earth and Mars. The primary mission of the European spacecraft would be to find, fly to, and capture a volleyball-sized capsule called the Orbiting Sample (OS) container launched from the surface of Mars by NASA's Mars Ascent System and carrying a carefully selected set of samples previously collected on the surface of Mars by NASA's Perseverance rover. Having already spent three years to reach Mars and perform its rendezvous and capture mission, ERO would take a further two years to fly from its operational orbit around Mars up to escape altitude and make its way back to Earth. When ERO is about three days from Earth, th
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Originally investigated in the 1960's by Marshall Space Flight Center plarners as part of the Nuclear Energy for Rocket Vehicle Applications (NERVA) program, nuclear-thermal rocket propulsion has been more recently considered in spacecraft designs for interplanetary human exploration. This artist's concept illustrates a nuclear-thermal rocket with an aerobrake disk as it orbits Mars.
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Global Surveyor orbiting Mars planet Global Surveyor orbiting Mars planet Copyright: xZoonar.com/StanislavxRishnyakx 14171493
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Exploration lunar rover in different angles on white background. 3D illustration
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BioSentinel spacecraft enters a lunar flyby trajectory into a heliocentric orbit. BioSentinel will detect and measure the impact of space radiation on living organisms over long durations beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO).
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Virtual Rover Drives Toward Rock
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Artwork of Virgin Galactic LauncherOne
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Exhibition display. Moving to Mars at The Design Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: N/A, 2019.
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Satellite Cassini is approaching Saturn Satellite Cassini is approaching Saturn. Cassini Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn Copyright: xZoonar.com/StanislavxRishnyakx 13916556
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft flys over dwarf planet Ceres which Dawn has been orbiting for mre than a year, providing us with fascinating views of an alien world.
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This simulated image shows how a cloud of glitter in geostationary orbit would be illuminated and controlled by two laser beams. As the cloud orbits Earth, grains scatter the sun's light at different angles like many tiny prisms.
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This simulated view, made using NASA's Eyes on the Solar System app, approximates Voyager 1's perspective when it took its final series of images known as the Family Portrait of the Solar System, including the Pale Blue Dot image.
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The Lucy spacecraft encounters an asteroid.
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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ISS016-E-008875 (3 Nov. 2007) --- View of the repaired solar array photographed during the STS-120 mission's fourth session of extravehicular activity (EVA) while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the International Space Station.
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Juno spacecraft, which will launch from Earth in 2011 and arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit.
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Flat orbital international space station illustration station in space near planet and comet vector illustration. Flat Orbital International Space Station Illustration
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Satellite orbiting Earth, illustration.
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1970's Stanford University study depicting a torus space colony, 1.8km diameter.
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This illustration shows asteroid 2020 QG's trajectory bending during its close approach to Earth. The asteroid is the closest known non-impacting asteroid ever detected. The asteroid passed by 1,830 miles (2,945 kilometers) above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday, Aug. 16 at 12 08 a.m. EDT (Saturday, Aug. 15 at 9 08 p.m. PDT). Movie available at
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Astronomical observatory dome in night with stars and glowing light
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NASA's Perseverance rover fires up its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface in this illustration. This phase of its entry, descent and landing sequence, or EDL, is known as powered descent. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021. The cruise stage separates about 10 minutes before entering into the atmosphere, leaving the aeroshell, which encloses the rover and descent stage, to make the trip to the surface. At about 6,900 feet (2,100 meters) above the surface, the rover separates from the parachute and backshell. At this point, the rover is joined to the descent stage, which functions as a sort of jetpack for the rover. The descent stage fires up its engines, flies to a reachable self-selected safe landing target, levels out, and slows to its final descent speed of about 1.7 mph (2.7 kph). It then initiates the skycrane maneuver about 12 seconds before touchdown, roughly 66 feet (20 meters) a
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An artist's depiction of a planetary base on a barren world.
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USA, California, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Jet Propulsion Laboratory museum, Full-size model of Mars Exploration Rover
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Earth Concept with Syringe, Composite Image
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Artwork of an O'Neill Cylinder
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This artist's concept depicts a small rover - part of NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration headed for the Moon - on the lunar surface. Motiv Space Systems in Pasadena, California, created the rendering and is collaborating with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on critical rover and mobility functions. Slated to arrive aboard a lunar lander in 2024 under NASA's CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative, CADRE is designed to demonstrate that multiple robots can cooperate and explore together autonomously - without direct input from human mission controllers. A trio of the miniature solar-powered rovers, each about the size of a carry-on suitcase, will explore the Moon as a team, communicating via radio with each other and a base station aboard a lunar lander. By taking simultaneous measurements from multiple locations, CADRE will also demonstrate how multirobot missions can record data impossible for a single robot to ac
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Magnetic Sources in the Crust of Mars
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Martian Ionosphere
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A manned Mars cycler space station approaches the planet Mars
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Virtual background of CAPSTONE spacecraft optimized for phone use (9x16).
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An artist's depiction of a satellite in orbit around an Earth-like world and moon.
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This image shows the paths of three spacecraft currently in orbit around Mars, as well as the path by which NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will approach and land on the planet.
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A video showing NASA's InSight spacecraft separating from the Atlas V rocket is seen during a prelaunch media briefing, Thursday, May 3, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
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Yellow barrels with nuclear waste circuit the planet earth yellow barrels with nuclear waste circuit the planet earth copyright: xzoonar.com/visdiax 2165446
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Haughton-Mars Project -
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This artist's concept depicts the High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO)-2 in orbit. The HEAO-2, the first imaging and largest x-ray telescope built to date, was capable of producing actual photographs of x-ray objects. Shortly after launch, the HEAO-2 was nicknamed the Einstein Observatory by its scientific experimenters in honor of the centernial of the birth of Albert Einstein, whose concepts of relativity and gravitation have influenced much of modern astrophysics, particularly x-ray astronomy. The HEAO-2, designed and developed by TRW, Inc. under the project management of the Marshall Space Flight Center, was launched aboard an Atlas/Centaur launch vehicle on November 13, 1978. The HEAO-2 was originally identified as HEAO-B but the designation was changed once the spacecraft achieved orbit.
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This graphic shows the general activities the team behind NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hopes to accomplish on a given test flight on the Red Planet. The helicopter will have 31 Earth days (30 sols, or Martian days) for its test flight program.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The grand opening of the new Great Balls of Fire exhibit was held at NASAs Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The grand opening featured remarks by former NASA astronaut Tom Jones, and Therrin Protze, chief operating officer at Delaware North Parks and Resorts at the visitor complex. Informational displays about future NASA exploration missions are featured along the wall of the new exhibit.Great Balls of Fire shares the story of the origins of our solar system, asteroids and comets and their possible impacts and risks. The 1,500-square-foot exhibit, located in the East Gallery of the IMAX theatre at the visitor complex, features several interactive displays, real meteorites and replica asteroid models. The exhibit is a production of The Space Science Institute's National Center for Interactive Learning. It is a traveling exhibition that also receives funding from NASA and the National Science Foundation.
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. NP-2023-04-019-JSC-Gateway-Expanded-View-041423. And expanded view of the Gateway space station showing each of its elements, international partner contributions, and visiting spacecraft including Orion and the Human Landing System, with prime contractors.