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Sept. 11, 1985: The ICE probe encounters Comet Giacobini-Zinner
NASA repurposed the probe after its 1981 mission ended, and the flyby returned data that supported the comet “dirty snowball” theory.
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On this day in space! Sept. 11, 1985: The International Cometary Explorer makes 1st comet flyby in history for NASA and Europe
On Sept. 11, 1985, the International Cometary Explorer, or "ICE," became the first spacecraft to fly by a comet. Here's why it mattered.
·New York, United States
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Sept. 11, 1985: The ICE probe encounters Comet Giacobini-Zinner
Launched as the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 in 1978, a joint NASA-ESA mission, the ISEE-3 probe studied the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field from the L1 Lagrange point. When its mission was complete in 1981, NASA proposed repurposing the craft by using it to intercept a comet; such reuse would save the money and timeContinue reading "Sept. 11, 1985: The ICE probe encounters Comet Giacobini-Zinner"
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