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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a five-year, 2.3-billion mile trek through the solar system, NASA's Stardust spacecraft is on course to swoop through a comet, snap pictures of the bright nucleus, snatch tiny fragments and ...

NASA’s $212 million Stardust spacecraft is returning to Earth on Sunday after a whirlwind 2.8-billion-mile tour of the inner solar system, and it will be visible from Washington state during its ...