spacetoday.net: space news from around the webin association with SpaceNews


Stardust completes asteroid flyby
Posted: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 10:05 PM ET (0305 GMT)
Stardust spacecraft illustration (NASA/JPL) NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by an asteroid late Friday night en route to its main destination. Stardust flew within 3,300 kilometers of the asteroid 5535 Annefrank at 11:50 pm EST Friday (0450 GMT Saturday). According to a JPL status report, the flyby went by without any problems, with the spacecraft tracking the asteroid for 30 minutes during closest approach at a relative speed of seven kilometers a second. Images taken during the Annefrank flyby are being transmitted back to Earth for analysis during the coming week; none have been released yet. NASA planned to use the flyby of Annefrank, a main-belt asteroid about four kilometers across, as a dress rehearsal for the spacecraft's primary mission, a flyby of the comet Wild 2 in January 2004. If all goes well, Stardust will collect samples of dust as it flies by Wild 2 and return them to Earth in 2006.
Related Links:
<<previous article   next article>>
news in brief
US and UK militaries conduct coordinated satellite maneuvers
Posted: Sun, Sep 21 8:30 AM ET (1230 GMT)

Blue Origin retires a New Shepard capsule after payload flight
Posted: Sun, Sep 21 8:25 AM ET (1225 GMT)

Astra planning first Rocket 4 launch in mid-2026
Posted: Sun, Sep 21 8:21 AM ET (1221 GMT)

news links
Tuesday, October 14
SpaceX Replicates Starship Launch Success as US Races to Moon
Bloomberg News — 7:46 am ET (1146 GMT)


about spacetoday.net   ·   info@spacetoday.net   ·   mailing list