Browse by Tags

• deep impact
• Missions
• Space Exploration

25 June 2010
Spacecraft to Make Final Flyby of Earth

The re-purposed Deep Impact spacecraft will make one final flyby of Earth on Sunday June 27, 2010, getting a gravity assist to help propel the spacecraft towards a meetup with comet Hartley 2 this fall. The spacecraft bus that brought the Deep Impact "impactor" to comet Tempel 1 in July of 2005 has been put [...]

Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

0 Comments

Filed under: Space Exploration, Missions, Comets, EPOXI, deep impact