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NASA Stardust Adjusts Flight Path for Comet Meetup


NASA Stardust Adjusts Flight Path for Comet Meetup

NASA's Stardust spacecraft has executed a rocket burn to refine its flight path toward a Valentine's Day comet encounter.

NASA's Stardust spacecraft completes comet flyby, sending photos ...

NASA's Stardust spacecraft completes comet flyby, sending photos back to Earth · Stardust spacecraft adjusts flight path for comet meetup.

Stardust celebrates twelve years with rocket burn - Phys.org

NASA's plan for the Stardust-NExT mission is to fly the spacecraft to a point in space about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from comet Tempel 1 at ...

Stardust Maneuvers Into Rendezvous Path With Earth

... to Earth with the first-ever samples from a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft successfully performed its 18th flight path adjustment.

Stardust-NExT spacecraft prepares for Valentine's Day comet ...

NASA's Stardust-NExT spacecraft is nearing a celestial date with comet Tempel 1 at approximately 11:37 pm EST February 14.

Stardust Celebrates Twelve Years With Rocket Burn - Space Daily

NASA's plan for the Stardust-NExT mission is to fly the spacecraft to a point in space about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from comet Tempel 1 at ...

Stardust-NExT - Redshift Sky

In January 2007, NASA re-christened the mission Stardust-NExT and began a four-and-a-half year journey to comet Tempel 1. "You could say our spacecraft is a ...

Stardust Launch - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

In 1990, NASA launched the Ulysses spacecraft on a flight path that would take it close ... flight path through the comet's coma, based on updated ...

Stardust (Discovery 4) / NExT - Gunter's Space Page

Stardust is the first US space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial ...

33 - COBS - Comet OBServation database

7, with a rocket burn to further refine its path toward a Feb. 14 date with a comet. More ... NASA Stardust Adjusts Flight Path for Comet Meetup. February 02 ...

nasa's mission on comet | Kalanjiam

Tagged with nasa's mission on comet. NASA's Stardust Adjusts Flight Path for Comet Meetup. Just over two weeks before its flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's ...

NASA's Stardust Burns for Comet, Less Than a Year Away

Just three days shy of one year before its flyby of comet Tempel 1, Stardust has successfully performed a maneuver to adjust its encounter ...

Stardust-NExT Spacecraft Fires Engines to Delay Arrival at Comet

NASA's Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) spacecraft fired its engines for 22 minutes 53 seconds on Feb. 17 to purposely delay its ...

stardust NExt | Kalanjiam

NASA's Stardust Adjusts Flight Path for Comet Meetup. Just over two weeks before its flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters ...

stardust mission status - Solar System Exploration - NASA

Stardust will keep traveling on its egg-shaped trajectory to eventually meet up in 2004 with Comet Wild-2, where it will collect samples of ...

Stardust Archives - Universe Today

Artists concept of the stardust spacecraft flying throug the gas and dust from comet Wild 2. Credit: NASA/JPL “This finding indicates that comet ...

Stardust Comet Flyby - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

In 1990, NASA launched the Ulysses spacecraft on a flight path that would take it close to Jupiter, in turn flinging it into an orbit around ...

STARDUST-NExT Archives - Universe Today

NASA's Stardust-NExT raced past Comet Tempel 1 overnight Feb 14/15 at over 10 km/sec or 24,000 MPH and is now sending back the 72 astoundingly ...

Star Dust - Planets for Kids

Scientists designed the NASA Stardust mission for the sole purpose of collecting uncontaminated samples of interstellar dust from a comet.

Stardust Mission Set to Bring Back a Piece of a Comet

NASA's Stardust mission, scheduled for launch Saturday, February 6, from Cape Canaveral, FL, will send a spacecraft flying through the cloud ...