Mission record
NEAR Shoemaker
Also known as NEAR, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
NASA · Launched
Explore trajectoryCompleted · Success
NASA's NEAR Shoemaker flew past asteroid 253 Mathilde in 1997, entered orbit around 433 Eros in 2000, and completed the first touchdown on an asteroid in 2001.
- Launch vehicle
- Delta II 7925
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, United States
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Flyby, Orbiter
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
NEAR Shoemaker · Orbiter
Destinations: 253 Mathilde, 433 Eros
Trajectory record
Trajectory dataset not yet available
No verified trajectory dataset is committed for this mission, so Mission Atlas renders no path.
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 3, 2026
- NEAR Shoemaker - NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims · destination/body context · event claims
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context