NEAR Shoemaker
COSPAR 1996-008A · NORAD 23784
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launch date
- 1996-02-17
- Status (SATCAT)
- decayed
- Decay date
- 2001-02-12
- Launch site code
- AFETR
- Owner code
- US
- COSPAR ID
- 1996-008A
- NORAD ID
- 23,784
Source:NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Orbit center code
- AS
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It re-entered the atmosphere on 2001-02-12 (CelesTrak).
- CelesTrak lists an asteroid as its orbit center — it worked at an asteroid, not at Earth.
- Someone born in its launch year (1996) turns 30 this year.