Mission controllers placed the still viable Stardust spacecraft on a trajectory that could potentially reuse the flight system if a target of opportunity presented itself. In January 2007 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But a close encounter with Jupiter that year altered the comet's trajectory ... than most spacecraft experience." Perhaps the most heart-stopping problem came last Nov. 9-10, when Stardust ...

“We performed our final trajectory correction maneuver on ... The mission uses the still-healthy Stardust spacecraft to perform a flyby of comet Tempel 1 and obtain high-resolution images ...

Tasked with collecting particles from comet Wild 2, Stardust performed a feat no other spacecraft had accomplished. It captured comet dust traveling over 23,000 km/h using the lightest material ...

A solar flare could zap the spacecraft as it approaches Earth ... the foot pedals that propel his recumbent kayak or Stardust’s elaborate trajectory with equal enthusiasm.

LITTLETON, Colo. – You could call it assisted suicide in space. NASA’s comet-visiting Stardust spacecraft was purposely put to death today by those that had provided tender loving care to the ...

The capsule had been dropped from NASA's Stardust spacecraft, which continued its voyage through space and became the first mission to visit two comets. Launched in 1999, Stardust visited an ...

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.