Sample return

Genesis

NASA

Collected the solar wind at the Sun–Earth L1 point for two years and dropped its capsule back on Earth in 2004.

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The flight

  1. August 11, 2001

    Launch

  2. January 1, 2020

    JPL’s track of it ends

From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.

Genesis (spacecraft)

NASA sample return probe

Genesis was a NASA sample-return probe that collected a sample of solar wind particles and returned them to Earth for analysis. It was the first NASA sample-return mission to return material since the Apollo program, and the first to return material from beyond the orbit of the Moon.

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