Technology: Space: Missions: Unmanned: Asteroids and Comets

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	Home: Technology: Space: Missions: Unmanned: Asteroids and Comets CATEGORIES:   Deep Impact (9)   Deep Space 1 (3)   Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (11)   Stardust (5) LINKS: ANTS Asteroid Survey http://ants.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Study on Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm, a novel concept to survey the asteroid belt using an autonomously operating spacecraft swarm. Giotto http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/giotto.html Information on the European mission to Halley's Comet (1985-1992). Near Earth Asteroid Prospector http://www.spacedev.com/newsite/templates/subpage3.php?pid=191&subNav=11&subSel=3 First planned commercial deep-space mission to near earth asteroid 1998 KY26 by the SpaceDev commercial corporation. Includes overview of the mission and information on the asteroid. 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko http://www.iac.es/galeria/mrk/comets/67p/67p.htm Features detailed information on the new target comet for the Rosetta mission. Giotto http://sci.esa.int/home/giotto/ Project documentation and scientific results of the Giotto mission, collected by the European Space Agency. Rosetta http://www.esa.int/export/esaMI/Rosetta/ Mission to rendezvous with the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko and deploy a lander on its surface. News, mission overview and scientific data compiled by the project team. Rosetta Mission http://www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/Rosetta/ Mission with five sensors capable of complementary measurements of the plasma environment around the comet Wirtanen. Mission and technology information. MUSES-C http://www.isas.ac.jp/e/enterp/missions/muses-c/index.shtml Project homepage for the planned asteroid sample return mission, by the Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. CONTOUR http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/nmc_sc/contour.html Spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center. Hayabusa (Muses-C) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/nmc_sc/muses-c.html Japanese mission to the asteroid Itokawa. Offers spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.

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