Unmanned Exploration Of Comets & Asteroids |
Unmanned Exploration Of Comets & Asteroids |
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Jan 2 2006, 07:48 PM
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Trying to give an overview of missions to Asteroids & comets …
Giotto ( 2 July 1985 to comet HALLEY in 1986 and to comet Grigg-Skjellerup in 1992 ) NEAR Shoemaeker ( 17 February 1996 to asteroid 433 Eros in February 2001 ) Deep Space 1 ( 15 October 1998 to comet BORELLY in September 2001 ) StarDust ( 07 February 1999 to comet WILD-2 in January 2004 ) Contour ( July 2002 to comet ENCKE … mission failure ) Deep Impact ( 12 January 2005 to comet TEMPLE-1 in July 2005 ) Which missions did I forget ? … … … |
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Feb 2 2016, 09:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-spa...ites-into-space
NEA Scout has been approved to piggyback on SLS, along with 12(!) other cubesats, four for the Moon, the rest for deep space, and three others from international partners, yet to be announced. The target is 1991 VG, which might actually be an artificial object from the 60s or 70s... |
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