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Rosetta (2). Thales Alenia Space's contribution: assembly, integration and test for the European spacecraft

Rome, Italy - It is the first mission realized to study in situ the nucleus of a comet

Rosetta, the spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) integrated by Thales Alenia Space and launched on March 2, 2004 to the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, is ready to reach its target. The spacecraft is situated at a distance of about 400 million km from the Earth but a few kms from the comet and in its constant approach is obtaining more detailed images of the nucleus. In particular, Rosetta...

fra/pec - 1162055
Rome, Italy, 08/05/2014 17:26
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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