Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit […]
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Rosetta awakes from hibernation for asteroid encounter
Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. ESA’s comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid as […]
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Rosetta: Earth’s true colours
Images True colour images of Earth as seen by Rosetta’s OSIRIS camera are now available. The pictures were taken on 13 November during the swing-by, and on 15 November, as […]
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The Moon and Europe – Rosetta OSIRIS images
Images As Rosetta closed in on Earth, swung by and then left on its course again, several instruments on the spacecraft were busy taking snaps. As it swung away, the […]
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Rosetta: OSIRIS’ view of Earth by night
Images This striking composite of Earth by night shows the illuminated crescent over Antarctica and cities of the northern hemisphere. The images were acquired with the OSIRIS Wide Angle Camera […]
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Rosetta swing-by a success
An important milestone has just been accomplished as Rosetta successfully swung by Earth at 21:57 CET. The spacecraft will now be catapulted towards the outer Solar System with its newly-gained […]
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Rosetta right on track for Earth swing-by
Preparations for Rosetta’s Earth swing-by scheduled for tomorrow, 21:57 CET, are well underway. The manoeuvre executed on 18 October 2007 has been accurate enough to not require any additional trajectory […]
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Rosetta closes in on Earth – a second time
Images ESA’s comet chaser, Rosetta, is on its way to its second close encounter with Earth on 13 November. The spacecraft’s operators are leaving no stones unturned to make sure […]
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Rosetta Earth swingbys – Boosting the accuracy of Rosetta’s Earth approach
Yesterday, 18 October at 18:06 CEST, the thrusters of ESA’s comet chaser, Rosetta, were fired in a planned, 42-second trajectory correction manoeuvre designed to ‘fine tune’ the spacecraft’s approach to […]
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Rosetta and New Horizons watch Jupiter in joint campaign
Images ESA’s Rosetta and NASA’s New Horizons are working well together in their joint campaign to observe Jupiter. A preliminary analysis of the data from Rosetta’s Alice ultraviolet spectrometer indicates […]
