The NASA spacecraft Stardust met this Monday, February 7 its 12 th anniversary in space. The spacecraft has traveled more than 5.6 billion miles since its launch.
He made a brief maneuvers rocket fired from his position to refine your flight trayactoria to settle this on February 14 about 200 km of the nucleus of Tempel 1 at the time of closest approach.
consumed about 69 grams of fuel and change your speed to 0.56 meters per second.
During this encounter, the spacecraft will image the surface of comet Tempel 1 to observe and determine if changes have occurred since another NASA spacecraft visited him last time. (Deep Impact in July 2005).
Along with high-resolution images, measure its composition, size distribution and flow dust emitted into the "coma" and provide new information about how they develop. Stardust was launched on February 7, 1999.
The project's original target was the Stardust flyby of Wild 2 in 2004 and collected particles from the coma he brought in a return capsule to Earth in January 2006. In January 2007, NASA renamed the mission like Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel), and Stardust's team began a journey of four years and a half before this new target.
NASA will conduct various activities "in vivo" for this occasion. The closest approach is expected at 4:40 UTC on February 15. The live coverage will begin at 4:30 TUC AM February 15 by NASA TV. Coverage will include live commentary from mission control at JPL in Pasadena.
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