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This paper represents the fifth in a series of updates for a mission, known as Rosetta, originally launched in 2004 for an extended rendezvous in 2014 with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. These papers are intended to build upon one another. On November 13, 2009, the Rosetta spacecraft swung by the Earth for the third and final gravity assist. The geometry of this Earth encounter provided for distant...
We describe the design, performance and scientific objectives of the NASA-funded ALICE instrument aboard the ESA Rosetta asteroid flyby/comet rendezvous mission. ALICE is a lightweight, low-power, and low-cost imaging spectrograph optimized for cometary far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectroscopy. It will be the first UV spectrograph to study a comet at close range. It is designed to obtain spatially-resolved...
The international Rosetta mission, the 3rd cornerstone mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been in operations since March 2, 2004. This year, Rosetta conducted observations of comet 9P/Tempel 1 in support of NASA's deep impact mission. Observations of this comet target were conducted from a distance of approximately 0.5 AU, and provided for approximately 2 weeks of observation time to complement...
The International Rosetta Mission was successfully launched on March 2, 2004. NASA's contribution to this mission consists of the following three hardware experiments: Alice (an ultraviolet spectrometer), the ion and electron sensor (IES - a plasma instrument), and the microwave instrument for the Rosetta orbiter (MIRO), as well as other components. Collectively these elements are known as the U.S...
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