CONTOUR
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contour-170-10501199
title:
CONTOUR
text:
The Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) was a NASA Discovery-class space probe that failed shortly after its July 2002 launch. It was the only Discovery mission to fail. The two comets scheduled to be visited were Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann-3, and the third target was d'Arrest. It was hoped that a new comet would have been discovered in the inner Solar System between 2006 and 2008, in which case the spacecraft trajectory would have been changed if possible to rendezvous with the new comet. Scientif
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Failed NASA cometary flyby mission (2002)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONTOUR
date created:
2002-09-10T11:54:29Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T23:21:03Z
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