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Loading contentExtended operations close to the body — global mapping, orbiting, and selecting sites for a landing, sampling, or impact.
mission_phase:proximity-operationsDataset membership
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How Proximity Operations connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
The final approach, when the target grows from a point of light into a resolved world and the spacecraft measures its shape, spin, and gravity to plan operations.
The critical interaction with the surface — a touchdown, a landing, a sample-collection manoeuvre, or a deliberate impact.
NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid (433 Eros, 2000) and the first to soft-land on one (2001).
Hayabusa2 collected surface and subsurface samples of the asteroid Ryugu and returned them to Earth.
The final approach, when the target grows from a point of light into a resolved world and the spacecraft measures its shape, spin, and gravity to plan operations.
The launch and the long interplanetary cruise to the target, often using gravity assists or ion propulsion to reach a distant small body.
For sample-return missions, the journey home and the high-speed atmospheric reentry of the capsule to a recovery site — the phase that delivers the science to Earth.
The critical interaction with the surface — a touchdown, a landing, a sample-collection manoeuvre, or a deliberate impact.
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Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.
Japanese missions (Hayabusa, Akatsuki) and space science.