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Mission Websites

Here we list links to the primary mission website as well as pages about the mission on other sites such as the NSSDC, NASA portal, etc.

Rosetta Mission

The Rosetta Mission is the third cornerstone mission in ESA's Horizon 2000 program. The purpose of the mission is to rendezvous with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, gather information on the comet as the spacecraft orbits it, and to land a package of instruments on the surface of the comet.
Scientific objectives of the mission are to study the origin of comets, and the relationship between cometary and interstellar material.
The Rosetta spacecraft launched in March 2004 from Kourou, French Guiana. On its way to the comet it has flown by two asteroids, (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008 and (21) Lutetia on 10 July 2010. In May 2014 Rosetta will rendezvous with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and gather data on the comet for 18 months.
The mission is scheduled to end in December 2015.

The SBN in cooperation with ESA will archive Earth-based observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

See Rosetta data at the ESA Planetary Science Archive.

This page only shows data sets that have been archived or were CERTIFIED by a peer review (are currently in lien resolution) or certified by ESA PSA. If you wish to see other Rosetta datasets that have been released but that are NOT CERTIFIED please see our Rosetta Draft Data Set Area.

Instruments

Data Sets

Ground and Launch

Commissioning 1 & Commissioning 2

Cruise 1

Earth Swingby 1

Cruise 2 & Comet 9P/Tempel 1

Mars Swing-By (includes Jupiter & Io torus)

Earth Swingby 2

Cruise 4A

Asteroid 2867 Steins Flyby

Cruise 4B

Earth Swingby 3

Cruise 5

Asteroid 21 Lutetia Flyby

Rendezvous Maneuver 1

Post Hibernation Commissioning (Lander only)

67P/C-G Prelanding (Orbiter only)

Escort Phase 1

Escort Phase 2

Escort Phase 3

Escort Phase 4

Extension 1

Extension 2

Extension 3

All Mission Phases

Other Mission Data

Related Datasets

Use the Small Bodies Data Ferret to find other datasets for this mission/target.

Other Links

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ground-based observations in support of the Rosetta mission (ground campaign website)