Asteroid Spacecraft Missions
A number of asteroid-related space mission have objectives and data that can be tied into observational project.
- NEAR (NASA): image mission; completed, data available online
http://near.jhuapl.edu/ - Deep Impact
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html - Rosetta
http://rosetta.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=13 - Hayabusa (Japan)—sample return mission; currently flying
http://www.jaxa.jp/missions/projects/sat/exploration/muses_c/index_e.html - DAWN (NASA)—image mission to Ceres, Vesta, in development
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/ - Don Quijote (ESA)—Deep Impact-like mission to NEO with impactor and orbiter to record before and after impact, in development
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEML9B8X9DE_index_0.html (announcement, not home page) - WISE: wide-field infrared explorer survey mission, in development (NOAO is a EPO team member on this mission.) Will map entire sky at IR wavelengths.
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/
