NASA's Deep Impact mission

Launch and flight teams are in final preparations for the planned Jan. 12, 2005, liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., of NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft. The mission is designed for a six-month, one-way, 431 million kilometer (268 million mile) voyage. Deep Impact will deploy a probe that essentially will be "run over" by the nucleus of comet Tempel 1 at approximately 37,000 kilometers per hour (23,000 miles per hour).

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[spiritneverdie1]

the missile was made with chilean mineral: cobre

nice mission ;D

[ejicon]

@BipedalHumanoid This is the part about youtube I really admire. The viewers that come on here with so much knowledge who are willing to share it with others. Thank you very much. I've learned a lot commenting back and forth with you.

[BipedalHumanoid]

@ejicon the distance they can travel still depends on the amount of power you pump in but they can travel very large distances on very little power output... and yes a the speed of light.

Radio signals on earth are bounced off the ionosphere. That's why you can receive a short wave signal from Australia in Europe without the help of satelites.

[ejicon]

@BipedalHumanoid Yeah, that's a good point. Also, radio waves travel the speed of light... and can travel at an infinite distance? That's for that Bipedal.

[BipedalHumanoid]

@ejicon It's easier than sending a signal to another place on earth because you can send it in a straight line

[ejicon]

It baffles me have we can receive data/photos/information from a ship located 31 million miles away in space? How is that even possible? Wow. Good stuff none-the-less.

[nganthony]

i wanted to see like this... left off.. cool

[Taveren22]

it wasn't a comet it was a probe (Alien).