Last contact with NEAR Shoemaker
Date in UTC
Controllers received the final communication from NEAR Shoemaker on Eros. Closed the mission's extended surface operations.
Historical significance
Closed the mission's extended surface operations.
- Type
- mission end
- Category
- mission end
- Mission
- NEAR Shoemaker
- Programme
- Discovery
- Organization
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Destination
- asteroid
- Target body
- Eros
- Country
- US
Sources and attribution
- NASA — NEAR Shoemaker (opens in a new tab) — Original factual summary; retain attribution to NASA.