Comet Nucleus Tour: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- July 5, 2002
- Declared end
- August 15, 2002
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
In Galaxy
None of the targets this mission declares is in Galaxy’s catalogue.
A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.
Description published by the archive
The Comet Nucleus Tour mission failed when the spacecraft broke apart during a planned maneuver six weeks after launch. No data were returned.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.contour_mission
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/