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

PASADENA, Calif. - Just three days shy of one year before its planned flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft has successfully ...

Stardust burns for comet, less than a year away | Astronomy.com

Stardust burns for comet, less than a year away ... Artist rendering of Stardust-NExT spacecraft approaching Earth's gravitational pull, resulting in accelerating ...

NASA Spacecraft Burns for Another Comet Flyby

NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its rockets to adjust its flight path today, Nov. 22, to set itself up for a flyby of comet Tempel 1 next ...

JPL: Stardust Burns for Comet, Less Than a Year Away

Just three days shy of one year before its planned flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft has successfully performed a maneuver ...

Stardust (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

Stardust was a 385-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on 7 February 1999. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet ...

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

Just three days shy of one year before its planned flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft has successfully performed a maneuver ...

Stardust celebrates twelve years with rocket burn - Phys.org

14 date with a comet. The half-minute trajectory correction maneuver, which adjusts the spacecraft's flight path, began at about 1 p.m. PST (4 ...

NASA kills off comet hunter - New Scientist

The Stardust spacecraft burned the last of its fuel on Thursday in an experiment designed to help engineers plan future missions.

R.I.P. Stardust: NASA Comet-Visiting Spacecraft Ends 12-Year Mission

But even in its death throes, Stardust will yield valuable data for spacecraft engineers. Ground controllers commanded the spacecraft to fire up ...

Stardust-NExT Spacecraft Fires Engines to Delay Arrival at Comet

... comet's close approach to the Sun on a successive orbit five and one-half years later. The engine burn was performed autonomously at 2:00 ...

Stardust spacecraft adjusts flight path for comet meetup - Phys.org

By observing the results of these planned maneuvers and making further rocket burns, that's how we get a spacecraft to be where we want it, when it's on the ...

The mission that forever changed our understanding of comets

Along the way, Stardust also visited asteroid Annefrank and a second comet ... Comet formation included fire and ice. Some of the ice ...

Comet-hunter spacecraft -- Stardust -- makes ends operations

The Stardust team performed the final burn to depletion, because the comet hunter was running on fumes, NASA officials say. The depletion ...

NASA Stardust Spacecraft Officially Ends Operations

The Stardust team performed the burn to depletion because the comet hunter was literally running on fumes. The depletion maneuver command was ...

It's been a 'wild' ride for the comet sampled by NASA's Stardust ...

Voyager 1 phones home! 'Halloween Comet' burns up · Best Telescopes ... Stardust collected less than a milligram's worth of comet dust ...

NASA's venerable comet hunter Stardust spacecraft wraps up mission

The transmission came on the heels of the venerable spacecraft's final rocket burn, which was designed to provide insight into how much fuel ...

NASA Retires Comet-Hunter Stardust - VOA News

US space agency says unmanned spacecraft will burn off all remaining fuel in single burst Thursday at 2330 UTC.

NASA Turns off Stardust Today - SpaceRef

But the March 24 burn will be different from all others. This burn will effectively end the life of NASA's most traveled comet hunter. “We ...

NASA's Stardust Mission - How Comets Work | HowStuffWorks

NASA has launched a mission called Stardust to comet Wild-2 to return pieces of the comet. The spacecraft will fly into the comet's tail and catch particles.

NASA's Stardust Spacecraft Burns for Another Comet Flyby

, 2011. NASA's Stardust Spacecraft Burns for Another Comet Flyby. Space Research Journal, 4: 37-37. DOI: 10.3923/srj.2011.37.37. URL: https://scialert ...