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This page contains philatelic information on the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) / Shoemaker (and other asteroid-exploration spacecraft). Catalog numbers, years of issue, and notes are given when available. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
NEAR / Shoemaker is also known as Discovery-2, one of the NASA Discovery-series spacecraft.
Lucy1 is also known as Discovery-13, one of the NASA Discovery-series spacecraft.
Psyche is also known as Discovery-14, one of the NASA Discovery-series spacecraft.
| Launch information (found elsewhere) |
Launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers, and launch-related event covers) (farther below) |
Other postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.) (immediately below) |
|---|---|---|
| NEAR / Shoemaker | NEAR / Shoemaker | NEAR / Shoemaker |
| PROCYON (JAXA) | PROCYON (JAXA) | PROCYON (JAXA) |
| Lucy1 | Lucy1 | Lucy1 |
| DART and LICIACube (ESA-ASI) | DART and LICIACube (ESA-ASI) | DART and LICIACube (ESA-ASI) |
| DART (on other than DART launch covers) | ||
| Psyche | Psyche | Psyche |
| Hera (ESA) | Hera (ESA) | Hera (ESA) |
| Hera (on other than Hera launch covers) |
Below is a list of NEAR / Shoemaker (and other asteroid-exploration spacecraft) postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.).
| Country | Catalog Number | Type of Item | Year of Issue | Notes on Content |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) / Shoemaker | ||||
| Burundi | 758g (Mi1854) | One of MS12 (758 (a-l)) (Mi1848-1859) | 2000 | NEAR was "launched 17 February 1998 and became the first spacecraft to go into orbit around an asteroid [14 Feb 2000 around Eros]" (in French text); (NEAR later landed on Eros, on 12 Feb 2001) |
| Germany | None | (Pictorial) cancel on cover | 1970 | "NEAR" |
| Germany | None | (Pictorial) cancel and (black printed) cachet on cover | 1970 | "NEAR" |
| Grenada Carriacou | 2205c (Mi3193) | One of MS6 (2205 (a-f)) (Mi3191-3196) | 2000 | "NEAR" (but Vega depicted) |
| Grenada Carriacou | 2206c (Mi3199) | One of MS6 (2206 (a-f)) (Mi3197-3202) | "NEAR" | |
| Grenada Carriacou | 2206c essay | One of MS6 (2206 essay (a-f)) | ||
| Guinea Republic | 2231 (Mi4050A) i2231 (Mi4050B) | Imperforate | 2003 | "NEAR" |
| Guinea Republic | 2231a (BL814A) i2231a (BL814B) | SS1 (2231) Imperforate SS1 (i2231) | ||
| Guinea Republic | 2231a fdc | SS1 on FDC | ||
| Guinea Republic | 2231b (BL none) i2231b | MS4 (4x 2231) Imperforate MS4 (4x i2231) | ||
| Guinea Republic | 2231b fdc | MS4 and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| Guinea Republic | Mi7644A | One of MS6 (Mi7641A-7646A) | 2010 | NEAR |
| Guinea Republic | Mi7641A-7647A fdc | One of seven stamps on FDC | ||
| Guinea Republic | Mi7641A-7646A_ms6 fdc Mi7641B-7646B_ms6 fdc | MS6 on FDC Imperforate MS6 on FDC | ||
| Ivory Coast | Mi1365A_ms6 | MS6 (6x Mi1365A) | 2005 | NEAR |
| Ivory Coast | Mi1365A_ms6+Mi1366A_ms6 fdc | One of two MS6 on FDC | ||
| Ivory Coast | BL69A | On stamp of SS1 (Mi1365A) | ||
| Ivory Coast | BL69A_var | On stamp of SS1 (Mi1365A), with missing text | ||
| Ivory Coast | BL69A-BL72A_var fdc | One of four SS1 with missing-text on FDC | ||
| Ivory Coast | Mi1369A | One of MS4 (BL73A (Mi1369A-1372A)) | ||
| Ivory Coast | BL73A fdc | MS4 on FDC | ||
| Ivory Coast | Mi1369A-1372A fdc | One of four stamps on FDC | ||
| Mordovia | Local_f | One of local post MS6 (a-f) | 1998 | NEAR |
| Mordovia | Local_ms fdc | MS6 and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| PROCYON (JAXA) | ||||
| Tuvalu | 1390 (BL264) | Stamp from SS1 | 2017 | PROCYON (launch date in text) |
| Lucy1 | ||||
| Sierra Leone | Unknown (Mi?) | Stamp from SS1 | 2023 | "Lucy" |
| DART and LICIACube (ESA-ASI) | ||||
| Central African Republic | Mi13222-13225_ms4 | MS4 (Mi13222-13225) | 2022 | "DART" |
| Central African Republic | BL2707 | SS1 (Mi13226) | ||
| Chad | Mi6233-6236_ms4 | MS4 (Mi6233-6236 + 2 labels) | 2023 | "DART" and "LICIACube"; (see also orbital drawing and the two spacecraft in USA asteroid-impact cover 2022) |
| Chad | BL1347 | SS1 (Mi6237) | "DART" | |
| Djibouti | Mi5802-5804_ms3 | MS3 (Mi5802-5804) | 2022 | "DART" and "LICIACube"; (see also orbital drawing and the two spacecraft in USA asteroid-impact cover 2022) |
| Djibouti | BL1938 | SS1 (Mi5805) + label | "DART" | |
| Djibouti | BL1939 | SS1 (Mi5806) + label | ||
| France | None | (Lollini) cachet on cover, also annotated | 2020 | "DART" and LICIACUBE and "Hera" |
| Liberia | Unknown ms (Mi?) | MS6 (a-f) | 2022 | "DART"; also "LICIACube" (in the SS1); (see also orbital drawing and the two spacecraft in USA asteroid-impact cover 2022) |
| Liberia | Unknown ss (BL?) | SS1 | ||
| Togo | Unknown ms (Mi?) | MS4 (a-d) and 4 tabs | 2022 | "DART" and "LICIACube"; (see also orbital drawing and the two spacecraft in USA asteroid-impact cover 2022) |
| Togo | Unknown ss (BL?) | SS1 | ||
| Togo | Unknown ss (BL?) | SS1 (different) | ||
| Psyche | ||||
| Sierra Leone | Unknown (Mi?) | Stamp from SS1 | 2023 | "Psyche" |
| Hera (ESA) | ||||
| France | None | (Lollini) cachet on cover | 2019 | (early-design) "Hera" |
| France | Unknown | (Lettre-verte) personalized postage, from booklet of 10 (10x single) | 2020 | (fantasy-design) "Hera" above asteroid Didymos; (stamp with green frame (as in the bk10) may be the original Lollini design, while the grey frame (as in the stamp) is a modification of that design by La Poste) |
| France | None | (Lettre-verte) personalized postage and (Lollini) cachet on cover, also annotated | 2020 | (fantasy-design) "Hera" above asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos; also in the cachet a realistic depiction of DART's nano-spacecraft LICIACube |
| Luxembourg | None | Personalized postage | 2018 | (artist's drawing of an early-design) Hera |
| Luxembourg | None maxi | Maxicard | ||
| Sierra Leone | Unknown a (Mi?) | One of MS4 (a-d) | 2023 | (artist's drawing of an early-design) "Hera" |
1NASA press kit for Lucy: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/lucy_press_kit_2.pdf?emrc=8eb0b0.
Below is a list of NEAR / Shoemaker (and other asteroid-exploration spacecraft) launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers, and launch-related event covers).
| Country | Cancel Date | Cancel Location | Type of Item | Notes on Content |
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| 1996-02-17: NEAR / Shoemaker | ||||
| United States | 1996-02-17 | Barstow CA | (Space Voyage purple and orange) cachet on cover | NEAR launch |
| United States | 1996-02-17 | Barstow CA | (Space Voyage purple and red) cachet on cover | NEAR launch |
| United States | 1996-02-17 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Space Voyage green and red) cachet on cover | NEAR launch |
| United States | 1996-02-17 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Space Voyage purple and red) cachet on cover | NEAR launch |
| United States | 1996-02-17 | Laurel MD | (Space Voyage brown and orange) cachet on cover | NEAR launch |
| United States | 1996-02-17 | Laurel MD | (Space Voyage brown and red) cachet on cover | NEAR launch |
| NEAR (post-launch events) | ||||
| United States | 1997-07-03 | Laurel MD | (?) cachet on cover | deep space maneuver |
| United States | 2000-02-14 | Pasadena CA | (Orange and red rubber-stamp) cachet on (airmail) cover | entry into orbit around Eros |
| 2014-12-03: PROCYON (and Hayabusa-2 and OSCAR-81/82) (JAXA) | ||||
| No launch cover images available yet | ||||
| 2021-10-16: Lucy1 | ||||
| United States | 2021-10-16 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Ranski) cachet on cover | Lucy launch |
| United States | 2021-10-16 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Ranski) cachet on cover | Lucy launch |
| United States | 2021-10-16 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | Lucy launch |
| United States | 2021-10-16 | Greenbelt MD | (Lollini) cachet on cover | Lucy launch |
| United States | 2021-10-16 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Lollini) cachet (different) on cover | Lucy launch |
| United States | 2021-10-16 | Greenbelt MD | (Mission patch) cachet on cover | Lucy launch |
| United States | 2021-10-16 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Mission patch) cachet on cover | Lucy launch |
| Lucy1 (post-launch events) | ||||
| United States | 2023-11-01 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | "Lucy trojan asteroid explorer spacecraft Asteroid Dinkinesh flyby" |
| United States | 2023-11-01 | Ft. Irwin CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | "Lucy trojan asteroid explorer spacecraft Asteroid Dinkinesh flyby" |
| United States | 2025-04-20 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | "Lucy trojan asteroid explorer spacecraft Asteroid Donaldjohanson flyby" |
| DART and LICIACube (pre-launch events) | ||||
| United States | 2021-11-19 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | DART and LICIACube pre-launch: DART static test fire |
| French Guiana | 2021-11-19 2021-11-23 | Kourou Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | DART and LICIACube pre-launch: "DART - Hera" |
| 2021-11-24: DART and LICIACube (ESA-ASI) | ||||
| French Guiana | 2021-11-23 2021-11-19 | Kourou Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | DART and LICIACube launch |
| United States | 2021-11-23 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | (Lollini) cachet on cover | DART and LICIACube launch |
| United States | 2021-11-23 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | (Ranski) cachet on cover, also back | DART and LICIACube launch |
| United States | 2021-11-24 | Laurel MD | (Lollini) cachet on cover | DART and LICIACube launch |
| United States | 2021-11-24 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | (Norwood Covers) cachet on cover | DART and LICIACube launch |
| United States | 2021-11-24 | Laurel MD | (SAS) cachet on cover | DART and LICIACube launch |
| DART and LICIACube (post-launch events) | ||||
| French Guiana | 2022-09-26 | Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | "DART - Impact" |
| United States | 2022-09-26 | Irwin CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | DART impacts asteroid moonlet Dimorphos |
| United States | 2022-09-26 | Houston TX | (Galactic Space Covers) cachet on cover, also back and insert | "DART asteroid impact", also "LICIACube" depicted in the cachet; (see also orbital drawing and the two satellites in Liberia Unknown ss 2022) |
| United States | 2022-09-26 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Ranski) cachet on cover, also back | "DART ... impacts near-Earth asteroid Dimorphos" |
| United States | 2022-09-26 | Laurel MD | (Lollini) cachet on cover | "DART" and "Impact" |
| United States | 2022-09-27 | Laurel MD | (Sarmiento) cachet on cover | "At 7:14 PM EDT on Sept 26, 2022, the DART spacecraft impacted the surface of asteroid Dimorphos" |
| DART (on other than DART launch covers) | ||||
| United States | 2022-07-10 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on Starlink-v1.5_G3-1-1/46 launch cover | "DART" (in text only) |
| United States | 2022-10-28 | no cancel | (Ranski) back of Starlink-v1.5_G4-31-1/53 launch cover, also front | "DART" |
| United States | 2024-10-07 | Cape Canaveral SFB, FL | (Lollini) cachet on Hera and Milani and Juventas launch cover, also annotated | |
| 2023-10-13: Psyche | ||||
| United States | 2023-10-13 | Titusville FL | (Sarmiento) cachet on cover | Psyche launch |
| United States | 2023-10-13 | Titusville FL | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | Psyche launch |
| United States | 2023-10-13 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Galactic Space Covers) cachet on cover, also back | Psyche launch |
| United States | 2023-10-13 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Galactic Space Covers) cachet (different) on cover, also back | Psyche launch |
| United States | 2023-10-13 | Washington DC | (Multi-color printed) cachet on card | Psyche launch |
| United States | 2023-10-13 | Washington DC | (Multi-color printed) cachet (different) on card | Psyche launch |
| United States | 2023-10-13 | Washington DC | (Blank/no) cachet on card, also back | Psyche launch |
| United States | 2023-10-13 | Washington DC | (Blank/no) cachet (different back) on card, also back | Psyche launch |
| United States | 2023-10-13 | Washington DC | (Blank/no) cachet (different back) on card, also back | Psyche launch |
| United States | 2023-10-13 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | Psyche launch |
| 2024-10-07: Hera (and Juventas and Milani) | ||||
| United States | 2024-10-07 | Patrick AFB, FL | (Galactic Space Covers) cachet on cover, also back | Hera launch |
| United States | 2024-10-07 | Cape Canaveral SFB, FL | (Lollini) cachet on cover, also annotated | Hera launch (but Milani and DART depicted) |
| Hera (on other than Hera launch covers) | ||||
| French Guiana | 2021-11-19 2021-11-23 | Kourou Kourou | (Lollini) cachet on cover | DART and LICIACube pre-launch: "DART - Hera" |
1NASA press kit for Lucy: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/lucy_press_kit_2.pdf?emrc=8eb0b0.
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