Rosetta
ESA
Followed comet 67P for two years, landed Philae on it, and ended by touching down on the comet itself.
Open in 3DThe flight
March 2, 2004
Launch
March 4, 2005
Flies past Earth, 8,361 km away
February 25, 2007
Flies past Mars, 3,570 km away
November 13, 2007
Flies past Earth, 11,772 km away
November 13, 2009
Flies past Earth, 8,863 km away
October 3, 2016
JPL’s track of it ends
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
Rosetta (spacecraft)
European mission to study Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2004–2016)
Rosetta was a space probe built by the European Space Agency that launched on 2 March 2004. Along with Philae, its lander module, Rosetta performed a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). During its journey to the comet, the spacecraft performed flybys of Earth, Mars, and the asteroids 21 Lutetia and 2867 Šteins.
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