flown missionSuccess
Delta 7925-8 | NEAR Shoemaker
United States Air ForceSpace Launch Complex 17B — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- NEAR Shoemaker
- Type
- Planetary Science
- Target orbit
- Heliocentric N/A (Helio-N/A)
NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) was a mission to rendezvous and orbit around an near earth asteroid (433 Eros). On the cruise to Eros, it flew by asteroid 253 Mathilde on 27 Jun 1997 and flew by earth on 23 January 1998. After failing to insert itself into Eros' orbit in January 1999, NEAR finally inserted itself into orbit around the asteroid on the second try on 14 February 2000. Initially in a 323 km × 370 km orbit, it lowered its altitude during observation. After reaching orbit, NEAR was renamed NEAR-Shoemaker.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925-8
- Family
- Delta
- Variant
- 7925-8
- Provider
- United States Air Force
- Type
- Government
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 17B
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.4458, -80.5657