- 2010
- Jun
- 26
Spacecraft to Make Final Flyby of Earth
An Anonymous Reader emailed us this current article presented at Universe Today. Here’s a taste:
The re-purposed Deep Impact spacecraft will make one final flyby of Earth on Sunday June 27, 2010, getting a gravity assist to help propel the spacecraft towards a meetup with comet Hartley 2 this fall. The spacecraft bus that brought the Deep Impact "impactor" to comet Tempel 1 in July of 2005 has been put […]
