NEAR Shoemaker
NASA
La primera nave en orbitar un asteroide, Eros, y la primera en posarse en uno, en 2001; Horizons la sigue llevando con Eros.
Abrir en 3DEl vuelo
19 de febrero de 1996
Lanzamiento
23 de enero de 1998
Sobrevuelo: Tierra, a 6910 km
31 de diciembre de 2009
Fin de la trayectoria de JPL
Según la trayectoria que publica NASA JPL Horizons.
NEAR Shoemaker
American space probe to asteroid (1996–2001)
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), later renamed NEAR Shoemaker in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA. Launched in 1996, it was designed to study the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros from orbit over the course of a year. It was the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid and successfully land on one.
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