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Suisei, meaning "comet" in Japanese, was an unmanned space probe developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. Launched in 1985, the spacecraft was tasked with observing Halley's Comet during its 1986 inner solar system passage. It carried an ultraviolet imaging system to study the...
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Successfully imaged Halley's ultraviolet hydrogen corona and measured solar wind interactions; respected contribution to the international Halley campaign with limited payload scope.
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Sakigake was an uncrewed space probe launched by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in January 1985. It holds the distinction of being Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft. Along with its sister probe, Suisei, Sakigake was part of an international fleet of spacecraft deployed to...
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Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft successfully investigated solar wind near Halley's Comet; historic and technically meaningful, though scientifically modest beside Giotto.
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Vega 1 was a Soviet space probe launched in December 1984 to study Venus and Halley's Comet. In June 1985, the spacecraft deployed a descent module containing a lander and an instrumented balloon into the atmosphere of Venus. Following this successful deployment, the main spacecraft continued its jo...
Vega 2 was an unmanned Soviet space probe launched in December 1984 as part of the Venera-Halley program. The mission successfully deployed a descent lander and an instrumented balloon into the atmosphere of Venus in June 1985 before using a gravity assist to fly past and photograph Halley's Comet i...
Giotto was a European Space Agency spacecraft launched in 1985 to investigate Halley's Comet during its 1986 return to the inner Solar System. It passed close to the comet's nucleus and returned the first detailed images showing a dark, irregular solid body emitting jets of gas and dust. Despite dam...
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