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| Rosetta Lander unveiled |
| A full size model of the Rosetta lander was presented to the public for the first time today. The unveiling ceremony took place at the Institute for Space Simulation in Cologne-Porz, a facility operated by the German Aerospace Research Centre (Deutschen Zentrums für Luft und Raumfahrt or DLR). |
| Date: 11 Mar 1999 |
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| Rosetta prototype flies on Stardust |
| Congratulations from the Rosetta team on the successful launch of Stardust!
What do the Giotto, Vega, Stardust, Contour and Rosetta comet missions
all have in common? The answer is they all carry European-built
instruments designed to study what comet dust is made of.
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| Date: 08 Feb 1999 |
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| Rosetta science working team reports excellent progress |
| Some 100 scientists and engineers came together during the latest meeting
of the Rosetta
Science Working Team (SWT) at the European Space Research and Technology
Centre
(ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands, on 14 and 15 January. Those present included representatives from the
United States as well as all ESA member states. |
| Date: 20 Jan 1999 |
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| Winners of the Rosetta children's competition |
| The post-Christmas winner of our Rosetta children's picture competition
is Elodie Berthet, aged seven, from Onex, Switzerland. Our
pre-Christmas winner was Lisa Mackay, aged 9, from The Netherlands. |
| Date: 15 Jan 1999 |
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| Xmas winner! Kids - keep the pictures coming! |
| The pre-Christmas winner of our Rosetta drawing competition is Lisa MacKay, aged 9, from the British School in the Netherlands.
We are so enjoying seeing all your drawings that we have extended the deadline until 6 January. So kids - keep those pictures coming in.
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| Date: 18 Dec 1998 |
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| Rosetta Passes Important Design Review |
| The Rosetta comet rendezvous mission has passed another significant
milestone. According to ESA's usual practice for major projects, a Rosetta Mission System Design Review took place at ESTEC in The Netherlands on 10 December 1998. During
the review an independent team of engineers and ESA officials closely
scrutinised all the
elements of the mission, including the ground stations, the spacecraft, the
payload of
scientific instruments and the launcher.
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| Date: 14 Dec 1998 |
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Rosetta children's Christmas picture competition.
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Deadline extended to 6 January 1999!
The Rosetta web site has a new children's Christmas drawing competition. The winning pictures will be published on the web. Visit our new kids' competition page for more information. |
| Date: 09 Dec 1998 |
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| IPC gives go-ahead for Rosetta |
| ESA's Industrial Policy Committee (IPC), meeting in Paris on 26 November, has given the final go-ahead for placing the Rosetta development contract with Dornier Satellitensysteme, Germany. |
| Date: 30 Nov 1998 |
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| Rosetta experiment reviews completed |
| The last of the Rosetta Experiment Intermediate Design Reviews (EIDR) was successfully completed on 28 October, at ESTEC.
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| Date: 29 Oct 1998 |
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| Contract signed for Rosetta deep space communications |
| Returning a stream of data while flying alongside a comet almost 900
million km from Earth requires a particularly sensitive and reliable
communications network. The European Space Agency has recently signed a
contract which should ensure that the vital information returned by the
Rosetta spacecraft during its long journey through the Solar System will
safely reach the eagerly waiting scientists. |
| Date: 22 Sep 1998 |
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| First observation of Comet Wirtanen with ESO/VLT |
| The European Southern Observatory's new giant telescope, has provided excellent new images of Rosetta's target comet, Comet Wirtanen.
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| Date: 21 Sep 1998 |
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| New asteroid targets for Rosetta |
| On its way to meet with comet 46 P/Wirtanen, Rosetta will fly by and study two asteroids. The target asteroids have changed to Otawara and Siwa. |
| Date: 08 Sep 1998 |
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| Rosetta experiment reviews in progress |
| Rosetta Experiment Intermediate Design Reviews (EIDR) started at the beginning of July and will be finished in October. At the EIDRs the design of the individual experiments of the Rosetta payload are reviewed by ESA. |
| Date: 07 Jul 1998 |
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| INFO 11-1997: ESA's Rosetta mission and the puzzles that Hale-Bopp left behind |
| While Comet Hale-Bopp steams away into the outer darkness, not to return to the Sun's vicinity for many centuries, the European Space Agency and multinational teams of space scientists are finalizing plans to examine another comet at very close quarters, in the Rosetta mission. |
| Date: 03 Apr 1997 |
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| INFO 12-1995: European Space Science Scales New Heights |
| Apart from heralding the maiden flight of Ariane-5, the end of 1995 is set to be a period of considerable and intense activity for European space science. Three major projects will be launched in the autumn, placing Europe at the forefront of scientific exploration of the universe. |
| Date: 12 Jun 1995 |
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| PR 43-1993: ESA confirms ROSETTA and FIRST |
| At its 68th meeting on 4/5 November 1993, ESA's Science Programme Committee endorsed the recommendation of the Space Science Advisory Committee to implement Rosetta, a comet rendezvous mission, as the third cornerstone and FIRST (the Far Infrared Space Telescope) as the fourth cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 programme. The launch dates will be 2003 and 2006, respectively. However, FIRST would return its scientific data earlier than Rosetta, as the travel time to the comet is rather long. |
| Date: 08 Nov 1993 |
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