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Entered orbit around 67P at 09:06 UTC on 6 August 2014. On 30 September 2016 mission ended in an attempt to slow land on the comet's surface near a 130 m (425 ft) wide pit called Deir el-Medina. Ariane 5G+ Philae: 2 March 2004: ESA / DLR Germany: 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: Lander Successful: Carried by Rosetta.
However, the mission was extended through 2025 to conduct 42 additional orbits, including close flybys of Jupiter's moons Ganymede, Europa, and Io. [24] At the end of its mission, Juno is planned to be deorbited and burned up in Jupiter's outer atmosphere [ 25 ] [ 26 ] to suppress the risk of biological contamination of its moons.
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.
Ongoing missions have current science objectives with respect to more than five extraterrestrial bodies within the Solar System – Moon (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter), Mars (Perseverance rover), Jupiter , asteroid Bennu , and Kuiper Belt Objects (New Horizons).
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Moons (not directly orbiting the Sun) ... first sample return mission from asteroid; ...
Vega mission description. The Vega program (Russian: Вега) was a series of Venus missions that also took advantage of the appearance of comet 1P/Halley in 1986. Vega 1 and Vega 2 were uncrewed spacecraft launched in a cooperative effort among the Soviet Union (who also provided the spacecraft and launch vehicle) and Austria, [1] Bulgaria, France, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic ...
The second moon that Earth has captured in its orbit this month is an asteroid called 2024 PT5. Mini-moons like this could be ideal targets for asteroid mining to send humans deeper into space ...
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