October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, AIM will have a projected launch mass of 800kg – less than a third of Rosetta’s launch mass. Measuring 1.8 x 2.0 x 2.1m across with solar arrays stowed, the spacecraft design is a simple one with fixed...
06 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
... landing using the spacecraft Philae, lander module of the Rosetta probe. This week, scientists said that alien microbial life...It should be noted that both the Philae lander and the Rosetta probe were not equipped to search for direct evidence of life...
December 2014
The vanity of machines
I was here – Rosetta’s self-portrait as it passes Mars, one of four planetary gravity assists needed to boost the spacecraft onto the trajectory to meet its target, comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
December 2014
The vanity of machines
Ready for the big event – Rosetta mission selfie taken on 7 October at a distance of about 16 km from its target comet
18 November 2014
Where is rossetta
This interactive 3D tool shows where the European Space Agency's comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft is on any given day – from launch in 2004 to the end of its nominal mission in 2015. http://sci.esa.int/where_is_rosetta/
14 August 2015
Fun in the sun with Rosetta: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at perihelion
.... The viewer in particular is a good demonstration of just how much our knowledge of the comet has widened following Rosetta’s historic comet landing.
