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[edit] New NASA mission

EPOXI is a new mission using an existing spacecraft, Deep Impact. It was announced in NASA Press Release 07-147. An extract follows...

NASA GIVES TWO SUCCESSFUL SPACECRAFT NEW ASSIGNMENTS

WASHINGTON -- Two NASA spacecraft now have new assignments after successfully completing their missions. The duo will make new observations of comets and characterize extrasolar planets. Stardust and Deep Impact will use their flight-proven hardware to perform new, previously unplanned, investigations.

I've made a brief start and will add some more details and a reference next.--Chris Jefferies 22:38, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Hmm... Having started this new article I'm not sure whether it would be better to keep everything within Deep Impact. I'm going to hold off adding any more detail until there are comments from others. Which way should we take this? Perhaps I got overexcited when I saw the NASA press release :-( --Chris Jefferies 22:59, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

The new mission has a webpage... epoxi.umd.edu 129.2.14.148 18:23, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

While it is the same spacecraft, it has new objectives/targets. In addition the spacecraft has been renamed and the mission itself is called EPOXI. Deep Impact is done. Elizabeth 68.84.3.185 (talk) 02:55, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep the new article.LanceBarber (talk) 08:41, 18 February 2008 (UTC)