NASA recycles Deep Impact spacecraft for Epoxi
Back in the day, the North American Space Agency(NASA) launched a spacecraft for it’s Deep Impact mission. At that time the goal was to study a comet. The same spacecraft still has plenty of juice left in it. So, the NASA officials are going to put the spacecraft from Deep Impact to yet another mission. This time the goal would be to study the comet Boethin. However, there’s one problem: the comet is missing. Experts believe that the subject of study has broken up into several pieces at some point. But, NASA staff is not going to give up this easy. They are hot on the trail of the comet. They are going to send a spacecraft in the trajectory of the comet. I hope that they can come up with something. NASA is going to put larger telescopes on board the spacecraft to turn the odds towards them. The space craft has a new name for this mission. It’s called The Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization and the Deep Impact Extended Investigation or in short Epoxi. The Epoxi will do three flybys in order to track down the location of the comet. Hopefully, NASA will be able to safely use the Deep Impact space craft for their low cost Epoxi mission.
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