Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
United States Air Force
Provider type
Government
Orbit
SSO
Mission type
Heliophysics
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Wed, 03 Jul 2002 06:47:41 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4545 ever
Mission
The CONTOUR (Comet Nucleus Tour) probe, built and operated by the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), began its five year mission to explore three comets, using repeated encounters with the earth to modify its orbit in order to reach each target.