Science news articles about 'rosetta spacecraft'

  • Rosetta spacecraft 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 with more accuracy. ...
  • ESA corrects Rosetta spacecraft trajectory

    PARIS, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says it has successfully corrected its Rosetta spacecraft's trajectory, optimizing its fly-by next month of the asteroid Steins.
  • Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins

    ESA PR 35-2008. ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. The doors of ESA’s European Space Operations Centre ...
  • Rosetta Spacecraft On Its Way To Meet Asteroid Steins

    ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. The spacecraft will rendezvous with the asteroid in the course of its first incursion into the ...
  • Rosetta spacecraft 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 ...
  • The Moon and Europe - Rosetta OSIRIS 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 OSIRIS camera also caught glimpses of the ...
  • Rosetta swing-by a success

    ... 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 ...
  • Intense preparations for Rosetta's asteroid visit

    ... at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Germany are working to a tight deadline as ESA's comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta swings steadily closer to a spectacular asteroid fly-by ...
  • UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News

    ... forces closing of Kennedy Space Center … ESA corrects Rosetta spacecraft trajectory … Evidence of century-long droughts found … Old bacteria relied on arsenic, not water ... Health/ ...
  • Scientists publish first ever evidence of asteroids with earth-like crust

    ... asteroid (2867) Steins, which was studied by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft during a flyby this past September. These so-called E-type asteroids reflect the Sun's ...

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