1999 · United States Air Force
Stardust
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Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon.
Overview
- Date / time
- February 7, 1999 at 09:04 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- Mission
- Stardust
- Mission type
- Robotic Exploration
- Orbit achieved
- Heliocentric N/A