ESA BR-179: Rosetta - Europe's Comet Chaser
Publication date: 16 September 2001
Authors: Peter Bond
Journal: ESA Brochure
Volume: 179
Year: 2001
Copyright: ESA
In November 1993, the International Rosetta Mission was approved as a Cornerstone Mission within ESA's Horizons 2000 science programme. Since then, scientists and engineers from all over Europe and the United States have been combining their talents to build an orbiter and a lander for this unique expedition to unravel the secrets of a mysterious mini ice world - a comet.
Table of contents:
- Rosetta: Europe's comet chaser
- Life and survival in deep space
- The cosmic billiard ball
- The long trek
- Rendezvous with a comet
- Debris of the Solar System: asteroids Otawara and Siwa
- Debris of the Solar System: comet 46P/Wirtanen
- The Rosetta Orbiter
- Science from the Orbiter
- The Rosetta Lander
- Long-distance communication
- Rosetta overview
Note: a more recent Rosetta mission brochure (ESA BR-321) is available here.
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