Status
Launch Successful
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Description
Deep Impact was to fly by Comet 9P/Tempel-1 on 3 July 2005. An impacter it released was to hit the comet on 4 July at 10.2 km/s, producing a crater and ejecta plume that would allow the flyby spacecraft to determine the composition and structure of the comet's nucleus.
Details
Type
Planetary Science
Orbit
Asteroid (Asteroid)
Location
Unknown
Date
Wed, Jan 12, 2005, 18:47
Weather
Pro