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The first Rosetta asteroid flyby
Ferri, Paolo; Accomazzo, Andrea; Hubault, Armelle +3 more
The International Rosetta Mission, a cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency Scientific Programme, was launched on 2 March 2004 on its 10 years journey towards a rendezvous with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Once reached the comet nucleus in summer 2014, Rosetta will orbit it for about 1.5 years down to distances of a few kilometres and de…
Preparing the Rosetta deep-space operations
Ferri, Paolo; Accomazzo, Andrea; Hubault, Armelle +3 more
The International Rosetta Mission, cornerstone of the European Space Agency Scientific Programme, was launched on 2 March 2004 on its 10 years journey towards a rendezvous with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta will reach the comet nucleus in summer 2014, orbit it for about 1.5 years down to distances of a few kilometres and deliver the lander …
India’s first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 initial phase orbit determination
Vighnesam, N. V.; Sonney, Anatta; Gopinath, N. S.
India's first Moon mission Chandrayaan-1 carrying eleven scientific instruments for the purpose of expanding scientific knowledge about the Moon was launched on 22 October 2008. The spacecraft was put into Moon's polar, circular orbit of about (100×100) km on 12 November 2008 by carrying out a sequence of Earth bound and Lunar bound maneuvers. Pre…
Infusion of innovative technologies for mission operations
Donati, Alessandro
The Advanced Mission Concepts and Technologies Office (Mission Technologies Office, MTO for short) at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) of ESA is entrusted with research and development of innovative mission operations concepts systems and provides operations support to special projects. Visions of future missions and requests for improv…
New developments in Indian space policies and programmes—The next five years
Sridhara Murthi, K. R.; Bhaskaranarayana, A.; Madhusudana, H. N.
Over past four decades Indian space programme has systematically acquired capabilities in space technologies and implemented its programmes with a high level of focus on societal applications. It is developed into a multi-dimensional programme where its strategy is directed towards diverse stake holders and actors such as government, users and ben…