Rosetta : the remarkable story of Europe's comet explorer / Peter Bond.

In 2014, Rosetta became the first mission to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander onto its surface. This is the story of ESA's pioneering comet explorer, following the mission from its initial inception to its historic touchdown. Read along as the Rosetta orbiter and its lander, Philae, evolve...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Bond, Peter, 1948- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Chichester, UK : Springer ; Praxis Publishing, [2020]
Series:	Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
Subjects:	Rosetta (Spacecraft) European Space Agency > History. Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. Comets > Observations.