Stardust spacecraft
NASA’s Stardust spacecraft collected cometary and interstellar dust in aerogel during its 2004 encounter with comet Wild 2, returned the sample capsule to Earth in 2006, and later flew by comet Tempel 1 in the Stardust-NExT extended mission.
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Identity
- Aliases
- StardustSTARDUSTStardust-NExTStardust NExT
- Family Name
- Stardust
- Full Name
- Stardust spacecraft
- Roles
- interplanetary_probesample_returnflybyresearch
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- NASA’s Stardust spacecraft collected cometary and interstellar dust in aerogel during its 2004 encounter with comet Wild 2, returned the sample capsule to Earth in 2006, and later flew by comet Tempel 1 in the Stardust-NExT extended mission.
- First Flight Year
- 1,999
- Last Flight Year
- 2,011
- Spacecraft Specs
- Reusability
- expendable
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/stardust/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 14:40:44 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 14:40:44 UTC