August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
...of possibilities for nanosat mission flybys and encounters of future comets. The inner Solar System is fairly easy to reach... flagship Rosetta mission took 10 years to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Such long mission durations are not...
26 August 2015
Rosetta Experts to Present the Mission at International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem
...information, pictures, scientific data and experience collected in more than one year around the comet is revolutionizing the science of comets and our knowledge of the history of the Solar System,” he continued. Dr. Ferri will be joined in Jerusalem...
15 June 2015
Rosetta’s Philae lander awakens
... the study of faraway worlds – it can also provide vital clues about life here on Earth, and how comet impacts may have influenced our own planet over the course of its existence. The Rosetta mission...
02 October 2017
New molecule discovery may have implications for chemistry on Earth
...seemingly forms efficiently under pre-planetary conditions, it can survive the formation of a planetary system and be incorporated in comets. The team, whose lead author is Edith Fayolle from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... first spacecraft to visit a binary asteroid system and ESA’s first mission to a small body since Rosetta landed on a comet. With its micro lander and accompanying flock of CubeSats, AIM will be a technology demonstration mission as well as a science...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... something went wrong. The rendezvous manoeuvre had to be performed on time, otherwise we would never be able to reach the comet. On 17 January we performed the first planned large burn, lasting about six hours. It completed as planned but during...
