NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft
NEAR Shoemaker was the Johns Hopkins APL spacecraft developed for NASA's first Discovery Program mission. The compact solar-powered probe combined asteroid flyby and orbital-survey capabilities, then demonstrated an unplanned landed phase after a controlled descent to Eros.
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Identity
- Aliases
- NEAR spacecraftNear Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft
- Family Name
- NEAR
- Full Name
- NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft
- Roles
- interplanetary_probeflybyorbiterlander
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- NEAR Shoemaker was the Johns Hopkins APL spacecraft developed for NASA's first Discovery Program mission. The compact solar-powered probe combined asteroid flyby and orbital-survey capabilities, then demonstrated an unplanned landed phase after a controlled descent to Eros.
- First Flight Year
- 1,996
- Last Flight Year
- 1,996
- Manufacturer
- Operator
- Spacecraft Specs
- Launch Mass Kg
- 805
- Reusability
- expendable
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- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 09:46:25 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 09:46:25 UTC