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Stardust
Delta II · Robotic Exploration
1999Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Stardust is the first U.S. space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet, and the first robotic mission designed to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the Moon.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Delta II
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2