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CONTOUR
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The Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) was a NASA Discovery-class space probe that failed shortly after its July 2002 launch. It was the only Discovery mission to fail.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 3, 2002 at 06:47 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta II 7425-9.5 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Contour
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 435 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2002-034A
- NORAD catalog №
- 27457
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 3.3062 m²
- Status
- active