Space probe

- unmanned, almost always automated spacecra ft designed to conduct research in extraterrestrial space. Spacec raft wynoszone by rockets or aboard the space shuttle. Equipped w ith scientific equipment (eg cameras, magnetometers, spectrometer s, radiation counters), collect data and provide to the Earth (now almost always send them via radio). Some of the returning spacecraft on the planet with samples of matter from the cosmic and other data stored on media information.