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Stardust-NExT

Stardust-NExT

Stardust-NExT was a follow-on mission that repurposed the Stardust spacecraft for a close re-encounter with comet Tempel 1 on Feb.

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Mission Statistics

Launch Date

Feb. 7, 1999

Type

Flyby Spacecraft

Target

Asteroids and Comets

Status

Past

About the mission

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.

Instruments

  • Imaging system
  • Cometary and Interstellar Dust Analyzer (CIDA)
  • Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFM)

More about Asteroids and Comets

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Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More

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NASA's Planetary Radar Images Asteroid 2006 HV5

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NASA’s Planetary Radar Captures Detailed View of Oblong Asteroid

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Radar Observations of Elongated Near-Earth Asteroid 2011 AG5

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Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid

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Curiosity Finds a Meteorite, Cacao

News .

NASA System Predicts Small Asteroid to Pass Close by Earth This Week

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NASA's Psyche: Picking up Launch Prep for 2023

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Construction Begins on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter

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NEO Surveyor in an Infrared Starfield Filled With Asteroids (Illustration)

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›Stardust-NExT Information on National Space Science Data Center

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