26 August 2015
Rosetta Experts to Present the Mission at International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem
... point of its initial conception. The interplanetary cruise took more than 10 years. The target, comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko, was reached in August 2014. During the long cruise, the spacecraft had been put into a two...
05 October 2015
ESTEC opens its doors, 9,000 hi-res Apollo photos go online, and other news from the weekend
... demonstrations of developing technology, hear astronauts’ personal stories of space travel, and view a scale model of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet at the home of the Rosetta probe. Even a stuffed toy Rosetta made an appearance. Image: Twitter...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
... (ALMA) in Chile, a team of astronomers have found faint traces of the chemical compound on the famous comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) that was the target of the Rosetta mission and around an infant star about 400 light...
22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
.... Led by Steve Squyres of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, CAESAR seeks to return a sample from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko to determine its origin and history. The comet has already been studied by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft and...
