On January 12, 2005, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft were launched together for this mission: one was a flyby vehicle about ...
Scientists on the trail of comets in deep space "reluctantly" announced Friday an end to NASA's Deep Impact mission after nearly a decade that included celestial fly-bys and hundreds of thousands of ...
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is running on fumes after chasing down two comets in the last five years, but the probe's cosmic work may not be done yet. Deep Impact cruised to within 435 miles (700 ...
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Jan. 12, 2005: A comet impactor launches
Commissioned in November of 1999 as the eighth mission in NASA's low-cost, high-frequency Discovery program of planetary ...
If the $333 million mission is successful, Deep Impact will be the first spacecraft to touch the surface of a comet. In 2004, NASA's Stardust craft flew within 147 miles of Comet Wild 2 on its way ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 12, 2005, NASA launched its Deep Impact mission to crash into comet Tempel 1, also known as 9P/Tempel. Two spacecraft ...
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