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A Game of Space Telephone
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Caption:
This image shows NASA's Deep Impact impactor spacecraft while it was being built at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colo. On July 2, at 10:52 p.m. Pacific time (1:52 a.m. Eastern time, July 3), the impactor will be released from Deep Impact's flyby spacecraft. One day later, it will collide with Tempel 1. The impactor cannot directly talk to Earth, so it will communicate via the flyby spacecraft during its final day.
The two spacecraft communicate at "S-band" frequency. The impactor's S-band antenna is the rectangle-shaped object seen on the top of the impactor in this image.
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | 9P/Tempel | |
| System | Periodic Comets | |
| Target Type | Comet | |
| Mission | Deep Impact | |
| Instrument Host | Deep Impact | |
| Host Type | Impactor | |
| Instrument | Impactor Targeting Sensor (ITS) | S-band Antenna |
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Color, Impact | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2006-10-19 | |
| Date in Caption | ||
| Image Credit | NASA/JPL/Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02110 | |
| Identifier | PIA02110 | |
