#Rosetta mission extended
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/06/23/rosetta-mission-extended
This announcement is mirrored from the main ESA web portal. The adventure continues: ESA today confirmed that its #rosetta mission will be extended until the end of September 2016, at which point the spacecraft will most likely be landed on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta was launched in 2004 and arrived at the comet in August 2014, where it has been studying the nucleus and its environment as the comet moves along its 6.5-year orbit closer to the Sun. After a detailed survey, Rosetta deployed the lander, Philae, to the surface on 12 November. Philae fell into hibernation after 57 hours of initial scientific #Operations, but recently awoke and made contact with Rosetta again. Rosetta’s nominal mission was originally funded until the end of December 2015, but at a (...)