March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... he would never convince our funding bodies to cover such an expensive project, especially with just one interplanetary mission, Rosetta, on future ESA plans. But he was stubborn and determined enough to finally convince everybody: within a few years...
15 November 2014
Pioneering Philae completes main mission before hibernation
... home world. “The data collected by Philae and Rosetta is set to make this mission a game-changer in cometary science,” says Matt Taylor, ESA’s Rosetta project scientist. Fred Jansen, ESA’s Rosetta mission manager, says, “At the end of this amazing...
15 June 2015
Rosetta’s Philae lander awakens
...awakening is great news due to the major importance of the Rosetta mission, which is doing a detailed study of the comet 67P/...planet over the course of its existence. The Rosetta mission made history when it performed the first successful landing...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... time being, the results it obtained are extremely valuable for the whole mission. The mission itself will go on for another 14 months at least. Rosetta will follow the comet in close vicinity through the perihelion passage next August...
26 August 2015
Rosetta Experts to Present the Mission at International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem
... International Rosetta mission is a cornerstone of the ESA scientific programme. For the first time in the history of spaceflight, Rosetta achieved a rendezvous with a comet nucleus and delivered a lander module, Philae, onto its surface. The mission...
25 September 2015
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s Imhotep region: conditions change rapidly on comet’s surface
...’t as much “know” as speculate, before the European Space Agency’s historic Rosetta mission and comet landing, that is. Now we have facts to back this up. As ESA’s Rosetta has beautifully captured yet again, things change rapidly on a comet. Dramatic...
