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Stardust
Sign in to savespace probe launched by NASA in 1999
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It sits within the topics Derelict satellites in heliocentric orbit, Derelict space probes and Discovery Program.
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Key facts
- Names
- Discovery 4, Stardust-NExT
- Mission type
- Sample return
- Operator
- NASA / JPL
- Cospar id
- 1999-003A
- Website
- solarsystem.nasa.gov
- Mission duration
- Stardust: , 6 years, 11 months, 8 days, NExT: , 4 years, 2 months, 7 days, Total: , 12 years, 1 month, 17 days
- Bus
- SpaceProbe
- Manufacturer
- Lockheed Martin , University of Washington
- Launch mass
- 385 kg (849 lb)
- Dry mass
- 305.397 kg (673.29 lb)
- Dimensions
- Bus: 1.71 × 0.66 × 0.66 m , (5.6 × 2.16 × 2.16 ft)
- Power
- 330 W ( Solar array / NiH 2 batteries )
- Launch date
- 7 February 1999, 21:04:15.238 ( 1999-02-07UTC21:04:15 ) UTC
- Rocket
- Delta II 7426-9.5, D-266
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SLC-17
- Contractor
- Lockheed Martin Space Systems
- Disposal
- Decommissioned
- Deactivated
- Spacecraft: 24 March 2011, 23:33 ( 2011-03-24UTC23:34 ) UTC
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 305.397
- Image
- Stardust pre-launch.jpg
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- Commons category
- Stardust (spacecraft)
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1999-02-07
- nominal power output
- 330
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Encyclopedic overview
Discovery Program
Stardust was a 385-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on 7 February 1999. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and return them to Earth for analysis. It was the first sample return mission of its kind. En route to Comet Wild 2, it also flew by and studied the asteroid 5535 Annefrank. The primary mission was successfully completed on 15 January 2006 when the sample return capsule returned to Earth.
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