Status
Success
NEAR
Launch Time
Sat Feb 17, 1996 20:43 UTC
Sat Feb 17, 1996 20:43 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
NEAR
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year. The mission succeeded in closing in with the asteroid and orbited it several times, finally terminating by touching down on the asteroid on 12 February 2001.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 487.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit
Location
SLC-17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
1996
9th orbital launch attempt
Delta II
46th mission
2nd mission of 1996
45th successful mission
4th consecutive successful mission