March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
..., letting 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...
25 September 2015
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s Imhotep region: conditions change rapidly on comet’s surface
... is known as the Imhotep region (named after the Egyptian polymath and high priest of the sun god Ra) of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were recently recorded by Rosetta. New features were expanding “by a few tens of centimetres per hour,” according...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
... for the two short fly-bys of asteroids Steins in 2008 and Lutetia in 2010. The new target - Comet 67P Churyumov- Gerasimenko imaged from ground telescopes in 2003. All these activities kept us busy for months of preparation but were...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...and will require a higher standard of reliability: ESA’s flagship Rosetta mission took 10 years to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Such long mission durations are not unusual when we plan missions to chase the so-called ‘short-period...
15 June 2015
Rosetta’s Philae lander awakens
... is great news due to the major importance of the Rosetta mission, which is doing a detailed study of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The study of comets is not merely the study of faraway worlds – it can also provide vital clues about life here...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...target). 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...
