The trajectory correction maneuver, which adjusts the spacecraft's flight path, began at 2 p.m. EST (11:00 a.m. PST) on Nov. 20. The Stardust spacecraft's rockets fired for 9 seconds, consumed ...

In turn, these new orbital plots will be used to plan the spacecraft’s approach trajectory correction maneuver. Stardust’s first such maneuver is planned for December 3. Unlike other orbiting ...

The Stardust spacecraft was launched on February 7 ... Brownlee said the capsule would spin towards Earth on a ballistic trajectory with no power and no controls. The capsule will enter the ...

Ten days before its historic return to Earth with the first-ever samples from a comet, NASA's Stardust spacecraft successfully ... A final trajectory correction maneuver is scheduled prior to ...

A Nasa spacecraft has flown through the bright halo of a distant comet to scoop up less than a thimbleful dust that could shed light on how our solar system was formed. Nasa said its Stardust ...

With the spacecraft on the opposite side of the solar system and beyond the orbit of Mars, the trajectory correction maneuver began at 5:21 p.m. EST February 17. Stardust’s rockets fired for 22 ...

NASA’s comet-visiting Stardust spacecraft was purposely put to death today by those that had provided tender loving care to the probe for more than 12 years. IE 11 is not supported.

On January 2, 2004, NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth. Stardust was the first robotic sample return mission of its kind.