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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.
18.2 × 10.5 × 8.9 (12.2 km) 1916 Galileo: 1991 1,600: 262 Flyby; first asteroid visited by a spacecraft. 243 Ida: 56 × 24 × 21 (28 km) 1884 Galileo: 1993 2,390: 152 Flyby; discovered Dactyl; first asteroid with a moon visited by a spacecraft, largest asteroid visited by spacecraft at the time. 253 Mathilde: 66 × 48 × 46 (58 km) 1885 NEAR ...
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Per recommendation by the Decadal Survey, NASA's announcement of opportunity was limited to six mission themes: [22] Comet Surface Sample Return – a comet nucleus lander and sample return mission; Lunar South Pole Sample Return – a mission to land at the Moon's South Pole–Aitken basin and return samples to Earth; Ocean Worlds (Titan and ...
One further focus of such investigation—besides the basic composition and geologic history of the various Solar System bodies—is the presence of the building blocks of life on comets, asteroids, Mars or the moons of the gas giants. Several sample-return missions to asteroids and comets are currently in the works.
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.
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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 ...