Rosetta Meets Lutetia

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

The ESA spacecraft Rosetta is usually a comet chaser launched in February 2004 atop the effective ArianeLJ rocket from launch facilities in French Guiana. The comet Rosetta is ultimately going to reach is CometೃP/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in Might 2014. You’d thing that large rocket would send the comparatively tiny spacecraft appropriate to the comet, but that’s just not [...]