The launch date for Rosetta, ESA’s mission to a comet, has been delayed by a few days. The inquiry board appointed by Arianespace, the European Space Agency, and CNES (France’s […]
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Arianespace Flight 158 with Rosetta: The launch date is delayed by a few days
Evry, France, December 30, 2002 The inquiry board named by Arianespace, the European Space Agency and France’s CNES space agency to investigate the anomaly observed during Flight 157 on December […]
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Rosetta Fuelled for the Journey of a Lifetime
Just as motor vehicles need fuelling before long journeys, so spacecraft require full tanks before they set off to visit other worlds. But whereas a typical car may carry 40 […]
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Rosetta’s Ariane 5 rolls out
The Ariane 5 for Flight 158 was transferred from the Spaceport’s launcher integration building to the final assembly facility yesterday, marking a major milestone in this upcoming deep-space mission. The […]
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Success for Rosetta’s Transatlantic Link
With less than three months to go before Rosetta lifts off from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, engineers from ESA, Alenia and Astrium are working feverishly to ensure that Europe’s […]
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Major award for the ‘Father of Rosetta’
The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), the largest division of the American Astronomical Society, has announced that its prestigious Gerard P. Kuiper Prize has been awarded to Rosetta Interdisciplinary Scientist, […]
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Rosetta arrives in South America
The final leg of Rosetta’s four-year race to the launch pad has now begun. After a 6500 km trip across the Atlantic Ocean, ESA’s comet chaser arrived safely yesterday evening […]
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Rosetta passes compatibility test
Students approaching the conclusion of lengthy academic studies will have considerable sympathy with ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft as the end-of-course examinations just keep on coming! After successfully completing deployment tests on […]
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Rosetta wishes CONTOUR luck chasing comets
Comets are suddenly in vogue in space research. ESA is getting ready to send its comet chaser Rosetta in January 2003 to rendezvous with Comet Wirtanen and study it in […]
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ESA Science Media Day: Rosetta and Integral getting ready for launch
Two contrasting space missions are in the final stages of preparation at ESA’s Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. They are the Rosetta mission to rendezvous […]
