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Deep Impact's New Assignments


Deep Impact's New Assignments - Sky & Telescope

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft, now renamed EPOXI, flew past Comet Tempel 1 in July 2005 (depicted here) and will fly past Comet Hartley 2 in ...

Deep Impact (EPOXI) - NASA Science

Deep Impact spent almost nine years in space. · The mission included an unprecedented 4th of July impact and subsequent flyby of a comet, an additional comet ...

Deep Impact | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Famous for its July 4, 2005 planned impact with comet Tempel 1 that generated a brilliant flash of light later discovered to be ice and dust debris ejecting ...

Deep Impact | Comet Exploration & NASA Mission - Britannica

In 2007 the Deep Impact flyby spacecraft was assigned a new mission called EPOXI, consisting of two projects: Extrasolar Planet Observation ...

Deep Impact: Your First Look Inside a Comet!

When the original Deep Impact mission ended, the spacecraft was in working order. NASA gave it two new tasks under the mission name of EPOXI.

Deep Impact gets new mission for new year - NBC News

The mission will observe five nearby stars where large, Jupiterlike planets were already discovered. Deep Impact may detect neighboring planets ...

EPOXI - Wikipedia

DIXI aimed to send the Deep Impact spacecraft on a flyby of another comet, after its primary mission was completed in July 2005, while EPOCh saw the ...

Changes to the Deep Impact encounter timeline

The times of the release of the impactor and the last spacecraft Trajectory Correction Maneuver have been shifted later, by 15 minutes. · Post- ...

Deep Impact: A Comet-Hunting Mission - Space.com

The Deep Impact mission consisted of two spacecraft. The coffee-table-size main vehicle carried a second, smaller probe designed to crash into ...

Solar System - Comets - Deep Impact probe - Space Today Online

What's Next for Deep Impact? While NASA has not approved a specific future mission, the space agency has given JPL scientists the go-ahead to bring the ...

Timeline (Text Version) - Deep Impact: Mission

The Deep Impact Mission flight schedule is approximately 6 months, but the many milestones between early planning and the end of the project last over 6 years.

Deep Impact (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

Deep Impact was a NASA space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 12, 2005.

Deep impact space probe launched - YouTube

latest mission - has been launched from the Kennedy Space Center ... job. The force of the impact will be equivalent to four and a-half ...

Overview of NASA's Deep Impact comet mission - Spaceflight Now

Adaring mission offering great scientific payoff, Deep Impact is the first spacecraft ever to attempt impact with a cometary nucleus in an ...

Deep Impact Flyby spacecraft images Comet 103P/Hartley

... new assignment. The Ball Aerospace-built Deep Impact Flyby spacecraft successfully completed another “first” for NASA November 4 when its ...

Ball Aerospace's Deep Impact Spacecraft Chosen for NASA's EPOXI ...

The successful Deep Impact flyby spacecraft built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., will be returned to service for two NASA Discovery ...

Deep Impact: Impactor No More - Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA

This movie taken by Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft shows the flash that occurred when comet Tempel 1 ran over the spacecraft's probe.

A Deep Impact update | The Planetary Society

We haven't forgotten about Deep Impact, but there's still no word on the crater size. I'm very sorry it's taking so long for us to determine ...

Deep Impact Mission - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

A 'Deep Impact Mission' refers to a scientific endeavor aimed at studying the physical and chemical composition of a cometary nucleus by delivering a ...

Stardust And Deep Impact Get New Assignments Cruising About Sol

Two NASA spacecraft now have new assignments after successfully completing their missions. The duo will make new observations of comets and characterize ...