Space Science: Missions: Unmanned: Asteroids and Comets

Features detailed information on the new target comet for the Rosetta mission.

Study on Autonomous Nano Technology Swarm, a novel concept to survey the asteroid belt using an autonomously operating spacecraft swarm.

Spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.

Information on the European mission to Halley's Comet (1985-1992).

Project documentation and scientific results of the Giotto mission, collected by the European Space Agency.

Japanese mission to the asteroid Itokawa. Offers spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.

Project homepage for the planned asteroid sample return mission, by the Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science.

First planned commercial deep-space mission to near earth asteroid 1998 KY26 by the SpaceDev commercial corporation. Includes overview of the mission and information on the asteroid.

Mission to rendezvous with the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko and deploy a lander on its surface. News, mission overview and scientific data compiled by the project team.

Mission with five sensors capable of complementary measurements of the plasma environment around the comet Wirtanen. Mission and technology information.