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Space mission

EPOXI

The extended mission of the Deep Impact spacecraft, which flew past the small, hyperactive comet Hartley 2 in 2010.

Type
Space mission
Domain
Scientific connections
Connections
4

NASA · NASA media (public domain)

EPOXI Mission Press Conference
EPOXI Mission Press Conference · NASA

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Mission dossier

A mission-story layout that emphasizes target bodies, spacecraft, timeline, agency, and evidence-backed status.

Trajectory mapMission architectureTarget graphSource trail
  1. 01

    Observe

    NASA imagery anchors the visual reading with licensed source metadata.

  2. 02

    Measure

    Measurement panels use graph coverage, catalog identifiers, and source availability without inventing values.

  3. 03

    Locate

    Visited Hartley 2.

  4. 04

    Connect

    4 graph relations shape the knowledge viewport.

Object type
Space mission
Graph relations
4
Verified sources
1
Image records
4
Domain
Scientific connections
Status
Graph entity

Scientific map

Mission context

Earth / launchHartley 2mission arc
  • Visited

    Hartley 2

  • Member of group

    Flyby Mission

  • Operated by

    NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Visited

    Hartley 2

Original SVG diagram

Mission architecture

LaunchEncounterSpacecraftSpace mission systemArchitecture follows recorded graph links.
Agency
Not recorded
Launch year
Not recorded
Mission type
Not recorded
Status
Not recorded
Flyby MissionHartley 2Hartley 2NASA Jet Propulsi...EPOXISpace mission

Visual knowledge graph

Relationships, not isolated facts

This viewport is generated from the Asteria knowledge graph. Science, culture, and interpretive links remain separated by domain so visual context never changes the evidentiary meaning of a relation.

Image provenance

Photography as evidence

4 cleared visual records
EPOXI Mission Press Conference

EPOXI Mission Press Conference

NASA · NASA media (public domain)

EPOXI Mission Press Conference

EPOXI Mission Press Conference

NASA · NASA media (public domain)

EPOXI Mission Press Conference

EPOXI Mission Press Conference

NASA · NASA media (public domain)

EPOXI Mission Press Conference

EPOXI Mission Press Conference

NASA · NASA media (public domain)

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Curated next objects

comet

Hartley 2

A small, hyperactive Jupiter-family comet flown past by NASA's EPOXI mission (the repurposed Deep Impact spacecraft) in 2010.

mission class

Flyby Mission

A spacecraft that passes a small body once at high speed, gathering images and data during a brief encounter. Flybys are the cheapest way to reach a new target — Giotto at Halley, Deep Space 1 at Borrelly, Lucy at the Trojans.

organization

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a NASA federally funded research and development center in California that builds and operates robotic spacecraft.

space mission

Deep Impact

NASA's mission that fired a 370-kg impactor into comet Tempel 1 in 2005 to excavate and study the material beneath a comet's surface.

space mission

Deep Space 1

NASA's ion-propulsion technology demonstrator that flew past comet Borrelly in 2001, returning detailed images of its nucleus.

space mission

Stardust

NASA's sample-return mission that captured dust from the coma of comet Wild 2 and returned it to Earth in 2006, and later flew past Tempel 1 as Stardust-NExT.

Observation

How this was captured

Source
NASA
Observation date
2010-11-18

Gallery

EPOXI Mission Press Conference

Michael A'Hearn, EPOXI Principal Investigator, University of Maryland, holds a plastic bottle containing ice to illustrate a point during a press conference, Thursday, Nov.

2010

NASA · NASA media (public domain)

Source archive ↗

Data

Scientific data & provenance

Data & provenance

Stable ID
space_mission:epoxi
Type
Space mission
Domain
Scientific connections
Relationships
4
Graph version
1.0.0

Dataset membership

Open data

In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld

Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/space_mission:epoxi

Scientific quality

Partial
Unreviewed1 sourcev1.0.0

3 of 7 applicable dimensions complete, 1 partial

Description
Complete
Source coverage
Partial
Relationship coverage
Complete
Review coverage
None
Citation coverage
None
Image coverage
Complete
Timeline coverage
None

Scientific entity. Dimensions that cannot apply to this object are excluded rather than counted as gaps. See the evidence framework and authority dashboard.

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Sources & references

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

    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.