Abstract is: Stardust was a 385-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on 7 February 1999. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and return them to Earth for analysis. It was the first sample return mission of its kind. En route to comet Wild 2, it also flew by and studied the asteroid 5535 Annefrank. The primary mission was successfully completed on 15 January 2006 when the sample return capsule returned to Earth. A mission extension, codenamed NExT, culminated in February 2011 with Stardust intercepting comet Tempel 1, a small Solar System body previously visited by Deep Impact in 2005. Stardust ceased operations in March 2011. On 14 August 2014, scientists announced the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule returned to Earth in 2006.
| space probe | Q26529 |
| sample-return mission | Q1093833 |
| P247 | COSPAR ID | 1999-003A |
| P8313 | Den Store Danske ID | Stardust |
| P1417 | Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID | topic/Stardust-NexT |
| topic/Stardust-United-States-space-probe | ||
| P646 | Freebase ID | /m/019mp6 |
| P8408 | KBpedia ID | Stardust-Probe |
| P2956 | NAIF ID | -29 |
| P8913 | NSSDCA ID | 1999-003A |
| P6081 | RIA Novosti reference | 43021171 |
| P377 | SCN | 25618 |
| P4342 | Store norske leksikon ID | Stardust |
| P4839 | Wolfram Language entity code | Entity["Satellite", "25618"] |
| P1889 | different from | Stardust | Q224592 |
| P527 | has part(s) | Stardust Sample Return Capsule | Q113129922 |
| P1079 | launch contractor | Lockheed Martin Space | Q2913694 |
| P176 | manufacturer | Lockheed Martin | Q7240 |
| P2067 | mass | 305.397 | |
| 390.599 | |||
| P2109 | nominal power capacity | 330 | |
| P137 | operator | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Q189325 |
| P793 | significant event | rocket launch | Q797476 |
| flyby | Q60323459 | ||
| P375 | space launch vehicle | Delta II | Q49538 |
| P1427 | start point | Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17 | Q1034324 |
| P619 | UTC date of spacecraft launch | 1999-02-07 |
FileName: Stardust pre-launch.jpg
Description: The Stardust spacecraft sits in the Payload Hazardous Service Facility waiting to undergo installation and testing of the solar arrays, plus final installation and testing of spacecraft instruments followed by an overall spacecraft functional test. At the top is the re-entry capsule. Built by Lockheed Martin Astronautics near Denver, Colo., for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA, the spacecraft Stardust will use a unique medium called aerogel to capture comet particles flying off the nucleus of comet Wild 2 in January 2004, plus collect interstellar dust for later analysis. Stardust will be launched aboard a Boeing Delta 7426 rocket from Complex 17, Cape Canaveral Air Station, targeted for Feb. 6, 1999. The collected samples will return to Earth in the re-entry capsule to be jettisoned from Stardust as it swings by Earth in January 2006.
Artist: NASA
License: Public domain
FileName: DeepImpactTempelCrater.jpg
Description: 'Before and after' comparison images from Deep Impact and Stardust, showing the crater formed by Deep Impact on the right hand image.
Artist: NASA
License: Public domain
| Q21994412 | Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft |
| Q105244196 | Nanometer-scale anatomy of entire Stardust tracks |
| P2956 | NAIF ID | Wikidata property example | P1855 |
| Q224592 | Stardust | different from | P1889 |
| Q113129922 | Stardust Sample Return Capsule | part of | P361 |
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