June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... space is the mineral resources that may be found on the asteroids. This is asteroid Lutetia, as seen by the Rosetta spacecraft. Whilst a normative position may be emerging in respect to the COSPAR planetary protection, there is a more pressing...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... ‘public domain’. “People are afraid because they are spending taxpayer’s money,” he states. “But the example of Rosetta demonstrates that the public likes to see risky activities, which shows curiosity as one of humanity’s strongest drivers...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
...nearly every NASA Mars mission. An example of a very successful international project in which DLR participated is the European Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in which development and operation of the Philae lander was led by DLR...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... Polish-built equipment included in almost every flagship research mission by ESA (Cassini-Huygens, Integral, Mars Express, Rosetta, Venus Express and Herschel). POLSA must also create conditions for Poland’s space policy to serve society...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... new space vehicles and systems like the Hubble Space Telescope, the Kepler Space Telescope, the Rosetta mission to land on a comet, Japanese missions to the Moon, Indian mission to Mars, and US probes to Pluto and beyond...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... for the automation and remote control of space based operations using Automated-Human-Robot-System. ESA’s Rosetta showing the deployment of the Philae lander to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Indeed, humans should always be allowed...
