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Stardust-NExT (Artist Concept) Artist concept of NASA's Stardust-NExT mission, which will fly by comet Tempel 1 on Feb. 14, 2011. › Full image and caption |
Stardust-NExT was a follow-on mission that repurposed the Stardust spacecraft for a close re-encounter with comet Tempel 1 on Feb. 14, 2011. Stardust-NExT's objective was to examine the area where Deep Impact, which visited Tempel 1 in 2005, had released an impactor on the surface of the comet.
The mission marked several firsts, including the first time a comet had been revisited by a spacecraft and the first time a comet had been studied before and after its close flyby of the sun.
- Imaging system
- Cometary and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA)
- Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFM)
| Type: | Flyby |
| Status: | Past |
| Launch Date: | February 07, 1999 4:04 p.m. EST (21:04 UTC) |
| Mission End Date: | March 24, 2011 |
| Target: | comet Tempel 1 |
| Destination: | comet Tempel 1 |
| Current Location: | › Click to view
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