LaunchesContour
USAFSUCCESS
Contour
Delta II · Heliophysics
2002Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral
Mission
The CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) probe, built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), began its five year mission to explore three comets, using repeated encounters with the earth to modify its orbit in order to reach each target.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Delta II
- Orbit
- SSO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2