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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
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This page contains philatelic information on the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) and Dawn (and other asteroid-exploration satellites). Catalog numbers, years of issue, and notes on the satellites featured 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 satellites.
Dawn is also known as Discovery-9, one of the NASA Discovery-series satellites.
Lucy is also known as Discovery-13, one of the NASA Discovery-series satellites.
| 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) |
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| NEAR / Shoemaker | NEAR / Shoemaker | NEAR / Shoemaker |
| Dawn | Dawn | Dawn |
| PROCYON (JAXA) | PROCYON (JAXA) | PROCYON (JAXA) |
| OSIRIS-REx | OSIRIS-REx | OSIRIS-REx |
| Lucy | Lucy | Lucy |
| DART and LICIACube (ESA-ASI) | DART and LICIACube (ESA-ASI) | DART and LICIACube (ESA-ASI) |
| DART (on other than DART launch covers) | ||
| Hera (ESA) | [future] | Hera (ESA) |
Below is a list of NEAR / Shoemaker and Dawn (and other asteroid-exploration satellite) postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.).
| Country | Catalog Number | Type of Item | Year of Issue | Notes on Content |
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| Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) / Shoemaker | ||||
| Burundi | 758g (Mi1854) | One of MS12 (758 (a-l)) (Mi1848-1859) | 2000 | NEAR |
| 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 (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 | ||
| Mordovia | Local_f | One of local post MS6 (a-f) | 1998 | NEAR |
| Mordovia | Local_ms fdc | MS6 and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| Dawn | ||||
| Bequia | Mi1102-1105_ms4 | MS4 (Mi1102-1105) | 2016 | "Dawn spacecraft, September 2007" (in lower-left margin), and "Vesta-Ceres asteroid belt study" (in lower-right margin) |
| Bequia | BL140 | SS1 | "Dawn launch September 27, 2007" (on stamp), and "Vesta-Ceres asteroid belt study" (in upper-left margin) | |
| Central African Republic | Mi3802-3805_ms4 | In (upper-center) margin of MS4 (Mi3802-3805) | 2012 | |
| Central African Republic | Mi3807-3810_ms4 | In (upper-center) margin of MS4 (Mi3807-3810) | ||
| Central African Republic | Mi3812-3815_ms4 | In (upper-center) margin of MS4 (Mi3812-3815) | ||
| Central African Republic | Mi3817-3820_ms4 | In (upper-center) margin of MS4 (Mi3817-3820) | ||
| Central African Republic | Mi3817-3120_ms4 fdc | MS4 on FDC | ||
| Central African Republic | Mi3827-3830_ms4 | In (upper-center) margin of MS4 (Mi3827-3830) | ||
| Central African Republic | Mi3832-3835_ms4 | In (upper-center) margin of MS4 (Mi3832-3835) | ||
| Central African Republic | Mi3837-3840_ms4 | In (upper-center) margin of MS4 (Mi3837-3840) | ||
| Central African Republic | Mi3842-3845_ms4 | In (upper-center) margin of MS4 (Mi3842-3845) | ||
| Central African Republic | Mi3847-3850_ms4 | In (upper-center) margin of MS4 (Mi3847-3850) | ||
| Central African Republic | Mi3852-3855_ms4 | In (upper-center) margin of MS4 (Mi3852-3855) | ||
| Central African Republic | Mi3852-3155_ms4 fdc | MS4 on FDC | ||
| Congo Republic | Unknown ms (Mi none) | MS4 (a-d) [known illegal issue] | 2015 | "Dawn" |
| Congo Republic | Unknown ss (BL none) | SS1 [known illegal issue] | ||
| Congo Republic | Unknown ss (BL none) | SS1 (different) [known illegal issue] | ||
| Guinea Republic | B41a (BL330A, Mi1252A) | In (upper-left) margin of SS1 (B41) | 1989 | (early-design) Dawn (which went to both "Vesta" and Ceres) |
| Guinea Republic | 2227 (Mi4053A) i2227 (Mi4053B) | Imperforate | 2003 | "sonde Ceres-Vesta" (which were the destination asteroids for Dawn) |
| Guinea Republic | 2227a (BL817A) i2227a (BL817B) | On stamp of SS1 (2227) On stamp of imperforate SS1 (i2227) | ||
| Guinea Republic | 2227a fdc | SS1 on FDC | ||
| Guinea Republic | 2227b (BL none) i2227b | MS4 (4x 2227) Imperforate MS4 (4x i2227) | ||
| Guinea Republic | 2227b fdc | MS4 on FDC | ||
| Hungary | 4370g (Mi5806) | One of MS8 (4370 (a-h)) (Mi5800-5807), also UV-light image | 2015 | |
| Hungary | 4370 fdc | MS8 on FDC | ||
| Mozambique | 1846d (Mi3267) | One of MS6 (1846 (a-f)) (Mi3264-3269) | 2009 | Dawn (new and old configurations) |
| Mozambique | 1846 fdc | MS6 on FDC | ||
| Rwanda | Unknown ms (Mi none) | In (lower) margin of MS10 (a-j) [known illegal issue] | 2010 | |
| Uruguay | 2593 (BL135) | In (lower-left) margin of MS3 (2593 (a-c)) | 2017 | "Dawn" (in text only) |
| Uruguay | 2593 fdc | MS3 on FDC | ||
| PROCYON (JAXA) | ||||
| Tuvalu | 1390 (BL264) | Stamp from SS1 | 2017 | PROCYON (launch date in text) |
| OSIRIS-REx | ||||
| Burundi | BL500A BL500B | In (lower-right) margin of SS1 (Mi3482A) In (lower-right) margin of imperforate SS1 (Mi3482B) | 2014 | "OSIRIS-REx" |
| Djibouti | 1588c (Mi2680) | One of MS4 (1588 (a-d)) (Mi2678-2681) | 2018 | "OSIRIS-REx" |
| Djibouti | 1607 (BL1257) | In (right) margin of SS1 | ||
| Ivory Coast | Unknown ss (BL none) | In (upper-left) margin of SS1 [known illegal issue] | 2018 | "OSIRIS-REx" mission patch |
| Madagascar | Unknown ims fdc | (Multi-color printed) cachet on imperforate MS4 FDC | 2018 | "OSIRIS-REx" logo and depiction |
| Madagascar | Unknown ss fdc1 Unknown iss fdc1 | (Multi-color printed) cachet on SS1 FDC (Multi-color printed) cachet on imperforate SS1 FDC | "OSIRIS-REx" | |
| Mali | Unknown ss (BL none) | SS1 [known illegal issue] | 2018 | "OSIRIS-REx" |
| Lucy | ||||
| No (non-launch cover) postal items found | ||||
| DART and LICIACube (ESA-ASI) | ||||
| Liberia | Unknown ms (Mi?) | MS6 (a-f) | 2022 | "DART" and "LICIACube"; (see also orbital drawing and the two satellites 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" |
| Togo | Unknown ss (BL?) | SS1 | ||
| Togo | Unknown ss (BL?) | SS1 (different) | ||
| Hera (ESA) | ||||
| France | Unknown | (Lettre-verte) personalized postage, from booklet of 10 (10x single) | 2020 | (early-design?) "Hera" (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) |
| Luxembourg | None | Personalized postage | 2018 | Hera |
| Luxembourg | None maxi | Maxicard | ||
Below is a list of NEAR / Shoemaker and Dawn (and other asteroid-exploration satellite) 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 (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 |
| 2007-09-27: Dawn | ||||
| French Guiana | 2007-09-27 | Kourou | (KPS) cachet on cover | Dawn launch |
| United States | 2007-09-27 | Kennedy Space Center FL | (Lollini) cachet on cover | Dawn launch |
| United States | 2007-09-27 | Pasadena CA | (JPL Stamp Club) cachet on cover | Dawn launch |
| United States | 2007-09-27 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | Dawn launch |
| Dawn (events) | ||||
| United States | 2011-07-15 | Pasadena CA | (Lollini) cachet on cover | orbit at Vesta |
| United States | 2011-07-16 | Pasadena CA | (RES&C) cachet on cover | orbit at Vesta |
| United States | 2015-03-06 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Thrifty) cachet on cover | "entered into orbit around Ceres" |
| United States | 2015-03-06 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "arrival at Ceres" |
| United States | 2015-03-06 | Cape Canaveral FL | (FM) cachet on cover | arrival at Ceres |
| United States | 2015-04-23 | Pasadena CA | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "first science orbit" |
| United States | 2015-05-09 | Pasadena CA | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "first Ceres science phase" |
| United States | 2015-06-06 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "start survey mapping mission" |
| United States | 2015-06-06 | Pasadena CA | (Multi-color printed) cachet (different) on cover | "start survey mapping mission" |
| United States | 2015-08-18 | Pasadena CA | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "began ... high-altitude mapping orbit" |
| United States | 2015-08-18 | Huntsville AL | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "began ... high-altitude mapping orbit" |
| United States | 2015-08-18 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "HAMO mapping orbit" |
| United States | 2015-12-15 | Pasadena CA | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "reached ... low altitude mapping orbit" |
| United States | 2015-12-15 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "reached ... low altitude mapping orbit" |
| United States | 2017-04-29 | Pasadena CA | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "Dawn views Ceres as opposition" |
| United States | 2018-10-31 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | End of mission |
| 2014-12-03: PROCYON (and Hayabusa-2 and OSCAR-81/82) (JAXA) | ||||
| No launch cover images available yet | ||||
| 2016-09-08: OSIRIS-REx | ||||
| United States | 2016-09-08 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | OSIRIS-REx launch |
| United States | 2016-09-08 | Cape Canaveral FL | (Lollini) cachet on cover | OSIRIS-REx launch |
| United States | 2016-09-08 | Greenbelt MD | (Lollini) cachet on cover | OSIRIS-REx launch |
| OSIRIS-REx (events) | ||||
| United States | 2017-09-22 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | Earth gravity assist flyby |
| United States | 2017-09-22 | Pasadena CA | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | Earth gravity assist flyby |
| United States | 2018-05-15 | Pasadena CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | "Asteroid 101955 Bennu closest approach" |
| United States | 2018-10-01 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | AAM-1 (first Asteroid Approach Maneuvre) |
| United States | 2018-10-01 | Pasadena CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | AAM-1 (first Asteroid Approach Maneuvre) |
| United States | 2018-10-29 | Pasadena CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | AAM-3 (third Asteroid Approach Maneuvre) |
| United States | 2018-11-30 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Bennu course correction measure |
| United States | 2019-08-07 | Pasadena CA | (Black printed) cachet on cover | "Bennu's terminator during Orbital B" (Phase) |
| United States | 2020-02-05 | Pasadena CA | (Mission patch and black printed) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx executes R2P1 maneuver" |
| United States | 2020-02-11 | Pasadena CA | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "side view of Osprey boulder" |
| United States | 2020-02-21 | Pasadena CA | (Mission patch and black printed) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx begins Reconnaissance-C misson phase" |
| United States | 2020-03-03 | Pasadena CA | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "edge of building-sized boulder" |
| United States | 2020-03-10 | Pasadena CA | (Mission patch and black printed) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx performs Reconnaissance-C orbital trim manuevers [sic]" |
| United States | 2020-03-26 | Pasadena CA | (Mission patch and black printed) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx performs Reconnaissance-C SMM bake-out activity" |
| United States | 2020-04-01 | Pasadena CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx captures black hole X-ray burst" |
| United States | 2020-04-14 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx spacecraft Bennu sample checkpoint rehearsal" |
| United States | 2020-06-20 | Pasadena CA | (Mission patch and black printed) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx executes pre-orbit maneuver" |
| United States | 2020-08-11 | Pasadena CA | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx spacecraft Bennu 'matchpoint' rehearsal" |
| United States | 2020-10-20 | Washington DC | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "touchdown sequence complete" |
| United States | 2020-10-20 | Washington DC | (Multi-color printed) cachet on cover | "Tag! You're it" |
| United States | 2020-10-20 | Denver CO | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx spacecraft Bennu sample acquistion" |
| United States | 2020-10-20 | Greenbelt MD | (Red Eagle) cachet (different) on cover | "OSIRIS-REx spacecraft Bennu sample acquistion" |
| United States | 2020-10-28 | Pasadena CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx spacecraft Bennu sample stowage" |
| United States | 2021-05-10 | GSFC, Greenbelt MD | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | "OSIRIS-REx sample mission return to Earth" |
| 2021-10-16: Lucy | ||||
| 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 |
| DART and LICIACube (pre-launch events) | ||||
| United States | 2021-11-19 | Vandenberg SFB, CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on cover | DART static test fire |
| 2021-11-24: DART and LICIACube (ESA-ASI) | ||||
| 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 (events) | ||||
| 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 insert1 and insert2 | "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" |
| 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_G3-31-1/53 cover, also front | "DART" |
