deep impact mission Archives

Stardust NExT set to meet its second comet

Stardust NExT must love comets. On Valentine’s Day the spacecraft will get up close and personal with its second.
It’s been seven years since the original Stardust danced with Wild 2 out beyond the orbit of Mars, capturing a thimbleful of co…

UMD-led deep impact spacecraft successfully flies by comet Hartley 2

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The University of Maryland-led EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at 10 a.m. EDT today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is the fifth comet nucleus visited by any spacecraft and the s…