Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Asteroid orbiter. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1996-008; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 17 February 1996, 20:43:27 UTC
- Launch location
- Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida
- Launch vehicle
- Delta 7925-8
- Orbit
- Earth-escape trajectory
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 28 February 2001
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
NEAR
Asteroid orbiter.
- GCAT ID
- S23784
- Manufacturer
- JHU-Applied Physics Lab
- Launch mass
- 805 kg
- Propulsion
- Leros 1
- Dimensions
- 2.8 m long · 1.5 m diameter · 5 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
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