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A cometary neutral gas simulator for gas dynamic sensor and mass spectrometer calibration

Wurz, P.; Altwegg, K.; Balsiger, H. +6 more

The goal of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission is a rendezvous with the Edgewood-Kuiper Belt comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. After the initial encounter the spacecraft will accompany the comet for one to two years toward the Sun and throughout the perihelion passage. For the calibration of the onboard comet mass spectrometers a calibrati…

Prelaunch performance evaluation of the cometary experiment MUPUS-TP

Kührt, E.; Knollenberg, J.; Spohn, T. +13 more

This paper discusses test results obtained in both laboratory and terrestrial environment conditions for the ``Multipurpose Sensors for Surface and Sub-Surface Science'' Thermal Probe (MUPUS-TP), which has been developed for the European Space Agency Rosetta cometary rendezvous mission. The probe is intended to provide in situ long-term observatio…