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Deep Impact (DIF)
Delta II · Planetary Science
2005Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Deep Impact was to fly by Comet 9P/Tempel-1 on 3 July 2005. An impacter it released was to hit the comet on 4 July at 10.2 km/s, producing a crater and ejecta plume that would allow the flyby spacecraft to determine the composition and structure of the comet's nucleus.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Delta II
- Orbit
- Asteroid
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 17B
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2