9P/Tempel 1

Body record

What the catalog records about 9P/Tempel 1

Body type

Comet

Position in the explorer

Marked pending, never drawn

Fields this body’s record does not carry are left out entirely rather than filled in with a placeholder or a zero.

Derived figures

Missions to 9P/Tempel 1

Committed missions

2

First launch

February 7, 1999

Latest launch

January 12, 2005

Concluded missions

2

Recorded a success

2

Success rate

100%

Active missions are excluded from the success rate: a live mission has no outcome yet, so counting it would report a rate the records do not support. 0 of the 2 records are still active, leaving 2 concluded. A partial success is a distinct recorded outcome, so it is not counted in the numerator, but it stays in the denominator.

Who went

Agencies

NASA

2

A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 2.

What they did

Mission types

Flyby

2

Impactor

1

Sample return

1

A mission can carry several types, so these figures need not add up either. Types no mission here carries are omitted.

How they ended

Outcomes

Success

2

Partial success

0

Failure

0

Active

0

Which ones

Every committed mission to 9P/Tempel 1

Every record counted above, in launch order — earliest first, with missions that share a launch date ordered by name.

1. StardustFebruary 7, 1999Success
2. Deep ImpactJanuary 12, 2005Success

Keep going

These records in the directory

The directory's destination filter is a category taxonomy, and it has no 9P/Tempel 1 key: these records are filed under comet alongside every other body of that kind. This page is where the catalog counts 9P/Tempel 1 on its own.

The explorer draws a flight path only where a trajectory dataset is committed. None of the records above carries a committed trajectory dataset, so the explorer has no 9P/Tempel 1 path to draw and this page offers no link to one.