29 September 2016
Rosetta on the way to its final resting place on Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... kilometers before reaching the comet in 2014. Philae landed on the comet's surface in November 2014. The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet is beginning to move further away from the Sun, making it more difficult for Rosetta's solar panels...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Since ancient times, comets have been considered special, set apart from planets and stars. Their unusual shapes, with long tails and unpredictable appearances, led to the belief that they were messengers of some divinity, often bringing bad, but ...
30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
...Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA > 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet at 8.9 km. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team... MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA > 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet at 5.7 km. Credit:ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team ...
March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... the public engage with the characters of Rosetta and Philae on their adventure to explore Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Compared to Earth observation, navigation and telecommunication satellites, space exploration missions are not often readily...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
The long years of hibernation, out of contact with Rosetta, were spent completing the preparation for the comet phase of the mission, defining operations concepts, designing and testing software tools and procedures, hiring and training the ...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...). It then took another 10 years’ worth of planetary flybys to finally achieve its triumphant rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The AIM spacecraft observes NASA’s DART mission smashing into one half of the Didymos binary asteroid...
