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Comet Mission Outcome Remarks Carrier rocket [2] ICE (ISEE-3) 12 August 1978: NASA United States / ESA: 21P/Giacobini–Zinner: Flyby Successful Extended mission; Closest approach of 7,862 kilometres (4,885 mi) at 11:02 UTC on 11 September 1985. Also made distant observations of 1P/Halley in May 1986. [3] Delta 2914: Vega 1 (5VK No.901) 15 ...
COmet Rendezvous, Sample Acquisition, Investigation, and Return (CORSAIR) is a concept mission to return comet nucleus samples to Earth for detailed analysis.The mission concept was submitted in May 2017 by a team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in response to the New Frontiers program call for mission 4, but did not pass the initial down selection.
Missions to Halley's Comet (7 P) R. Rosetta mission (15 P) Pages in category "Missions to comets" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
As space objects go, comets and meteors are not very big. The largest asteroid, Ceres, is only about 600 miles wide. ... NASA’s Lucy mission launched in 2021 with the goal of flying by eight ...
A comet is an icy, small Solar ... probe sent by NASA Deep Impact mission in July 2005. Research conducted in 2014 ... mission yielded results suggesting that the ...
These results, the agency said, contradict some recent research. In 2014, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to the comet analyzed water measurements, finding the highest concentration ...
first soft landing on a comet (November 2014) Notes: (a) Due to a non-spherical, irregular shape, a comet's x, y, and z axes instead of an (average) diameter are often used to describe its dimensions. (b) Closest approach given in multiples of the comet's (average mean) radius · List ordered in ascending order by a comet's first visit.
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has an 80,000 year orbit and, it just so happens, that it is now approaching its closest pass to Earth. On Wednesday, the comet made its closest approach to our sun and on ...