Deep Impact launched by NASA

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12 January, 2005

On 12th January 2005, NASA and the JPL launched Deep Impact on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral. The craft was meant to study the interior composition of Tempel 1 comet on which an impactor was released the next day.