NASA's EPOXI spacecraft has temporarily halted EPOCH (Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization) observations starting this past Sunday, Feb. 17.
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien (exosolar) planets as it enters its extended mission, called Epoxi.
NASA has approved the retargeting of the Epoxi mission for a flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Oct. 11, 2010.
NASA's Deep Impact has been re-christened EPOXI.
A drawing of EPOXI's trajectory.
Deep Impact, now EPOXI, was launched in 2005.
A view of EPOXI's telescope assemblies.