The UK space industry has been handed a boost after Europe’s Rosetta probe mission became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet.
After a decade-long attempt, Rosetta has aligned with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko some 405m km from Earth half way between Jupiter and Mars. The mission will see Rosetta follow the comet for over a year as it swings around the sun and back out towards Jupiter again, examining the object and exploring theories that comets may have…
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