Deep Impact / EPOXI Spacecraft System
The Ball Aerospace-built Deep Impact system paired a reusable flyby spacecraft with a sacrificial impactor for comet Tempel 1. The surviving flyby spacecraft continued as EPOXI and encountered comet Hartley 2.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Deep Impact spacecraft systemEPOXI spacecraft system
- Family Name
- Deep Impact
- Full Name
- Deep Impact / EPOXI Spacecraft System
- Roles
- interplanetary_probeflybyimpactor
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- The Ball Aerospace-built Deep Impact system paired a reusable flyby spacecraft with a sacrificial impactor for comet Tempel 1. The surviving flyby spacecraft continued as EPOXI and encountered comet Hartley 2.
- First Flight Year
- 2,005
- Last Flight Year
- 2,013
- Manufacturer
- Operator
- Spacecraft Specs
- Reusability
- unknown
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- Creation Time
- July 17, 2026 at 00:01:34 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 19, 2026 at 02:44:34 UTC
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