Rosetta lines up for spectacular asteroid flyby - ESA

8 Jul 2010 ... On 10 July, ESA's Rosetta will fly past 21 Lutetia, the largest asteroid ever visited by a satellite. After weeks of manoeuvres and a challenging ...

Rosetta - Long-distance communication - ESA

During Rosetta's prolonged interplanetary expedition, reliable communications between the spacecraft and the ground will be essential. All of the scientific data ...

First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home - ESA

12 Nov 2009 ... This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser earlier today as the ...

osiris - ESA

OSIRIS (Optical, Spectrocopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System) has a wide- angle camera and narrow-angle camera that can obtain high-resolution images ...

When is a comet not a comet? Rosetta finds out - ESA

13 Oct 2010 ... Using its OSIRIS camera, Rosetta made the breakthrough because it is far from Earth and so it could look at mystery object 'P/2010 A2' from a ...

Rosetta to sleep through loneliest leg of comet mission - ESA

3 Jun 2011 ... On 8 June, mission controllers will have the first opportunity to switch ESA's Rosetta comet-hunter into deep-space hibernation for 31 months.

Rosetta launch delayed for technical reasons - ESA

Today's launch of Flight 158 with the Rosetta spacecraft will be delayed by a few days to allow for a minor repair to the external thermal protection on Ariane 5's ...

Space in Videos - Missions - Rosetta

Why Explore Other Planets? A video focusing on the goal of space exploration. Released: 29/06/2001; Length: 00:05:43. Rating. Votes: 0; Views: 320 ...

Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins - ESA

25 Aug 2008 ... ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. The doors of ESA's European Space ...

ESA's new challenge with Rosetta

After the initial disappointment of postponing the Rosetta mission, ESA's Director of Science David Southwood expressed his firm determination to accept the ...