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| INSTITUTET FÖR RYMDFYSIK | Space Plasma Physics programme, UPPSALA |
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| Swedish Institute of Space Physics | (59o50.272'N, 17o38.786'E) |
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Rosetta is an ambitious project to catch up with a comet, follow it in its orbit for more than a year, and even put a lander on its surface. It now carries our space weather station to the comet! |
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Rosetta timeline
Rosetta needs ten years on an intricate path
through the solar system to reach its destination comet in 2014.
Here are some milestones on the road:| Date |
What
happens |
Comments |
| 2 March 2004 | Launch | By use of an Ariane-V
rocket
from Kourou, French Guyana |
| 4 March 2005 | 1st Earth swing-by | To
get
all the way to the comet, we need to gain speed by flying close to
Earth and Mars. The Mars flyby is also a nice science opportunity. Rosetta will also pass by two asteroids en route to the comet, to do some investigations also of these bodies. |
| 26 February 2007 | Mars swing-by | |
| 14 November 2007 | 2nd Earth swing-by | |
| 5 September 2008 |
Astroid Steins flyby |
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| 11 November 2009 | 3rd Earth swing-by | |
| 10 July 2010 |
Asteroid Lutetia flyby |
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| August 2014 |
Arriving close to comet Churyomov-Gerasimenko | Full scale science
operations
start somewhat later, though we certainly hope to get some early data
to see how active the comet is when still so far from the sun that it
has no visible coma or tail. |
| November 2014 | Landing on the comet | |
| August 2015 | Perihelion |