The Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) was a cancelled plan for a NASA-led exploratory mission designed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the...

the EPOXI mission did a flyby of comet Hartley 2. Flyby is also sometimes loosely used to describe when, for example, an asteroid approaches and coasts...

study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). During its journey to the comet, the spacecraft performed flybys of Earth, Mars, and the asteroids 21 Lutetia...

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Civil Reserve Air Fleet Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies Cuban Revolutionary...

Saturn Orbiter/Titan Probe, or SOTP (later Cassini) and the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF), both of which were approved by Congress in 1990. Other...

astronomical objects. Originally classified as comet C/2017 U1, it was later reclassified as asteroid A/2017 U1 due to the absence of a coma. Once it...

Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic...

2007, completed – Vesta in 2011-2012, and Ceres in 2015-2018 Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher...

mission. Apophis is the only asteroid which the spacecraft could reach for a long-duration rendezvous, rather than a brief flyby. In April 2022, the extension...

of performing a flyby of an as yet undisclosed asteroid to confirm if it is a metal-rich M-type asteroid. The first near-Earth comet visited by a space...

An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor a comet—that orbits within the inner Solar System. They are rocky, metallic,...

developed for missions beyond the orbit of Mars, after the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) mission, but budget cuts and project rescopings forced...

tables list all minor planets and comets that have been visited by robotic spacecraft. A total of 18 minor planets (asteroids, dwarf planets, and Kuiper belt...

to return close-up data. However, the US cometary mission, Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby, was canceled for budgetary reasons. In the mid-1990s, further...

Energetics and Evolution Mercury Polar Flyby Near Earth Asteroid Returned Sample Origin of Asteroids, Comets and Life on Earth PELE: A Lunar Mission...

the unexpected change in acceleration for flybys of spacecraft? (more unsolved problems in physics) The flyby anomaly is a discrepancy between current...

probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions. Flybys (such...

4015 Wilson–Harrington is an active asteroid known both as comet 107P/Wilson–Harrington and as asteroid 4015 Wilson–Harrington. It passed 0.4 AU (60 million km)...

asteroid (449), a mission which also include a rendezvous with Comet Kopf. See Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby for more on the mission to the comet....

overwhelmingly so. Three rendezvous missions aside, Halley was one example. Its unfavorable trajectory also caused brief flybys at extreme speed, at one...

Mars meanwhile the other segment does a Mars flyby, then the lander takes off and rendezvous with the flyby segment transferring the crew over. (see also...

Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of...

tons; 112,000 lb). The plan was to rendezvous with an asteroid previously placed in lunar orbit by the robotic Asteroid Redirect Mission and have astronauts...

missions: an asteroid rendezvous mission later became NEAR, and a comet sample return mission later became Stardust. In 1995, ISAS selected asteroid sample...

(Regolith Explorer) mission, the spacecraft is planned to conduct a flyby of asteroid 99942 Apophis, now as OSIRIS-APEX (Apophis Explorer). OSIRIS-REx was...

Rendezvous - a mission to fly by two or more Trojan asteroids Venus Lander NASA received and reviewed 12 proposals: Comet Surface Sample Return Comet...

Apollo-Soyuz, Voyager, Pioneer Venus Multiprobe and Orbiter, Galileo, Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby, and Cassini. Based on observations by the Pioneer Venus entry...

to flyby the asteroids 21 Lutetia and 2867 Šteins as well as eventually match the velocity of the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet at the rendezvous point...

achieved the first asteroid flyby, of 951 Gaspra, and discovered the first asteroid moon, Dactyl, around 243 Ida. In 1994, Galileo observed Comet Shoemaker–Levy...

the co-orbital near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and the main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS. The spacecraft will rendezvous with Kamoʻoalewa and conduct...