[FPSPACE] FW: Boosting the accuracy of Rosetta's Earth approach

LARRY KLAES ljk4 at msn.com
Fri Oct 19 09:56:43 EDT 2007




>From: "ESA" <contactesa at esa.int>
>Reply-To: ContactEsa at esa.int
>Subject: Boosting the accuracy of Rosetta's Earth approach
>Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:34:58 +0100
>
>Yesterday, 18 October at 18:06 CEST, the thrusters of ESA’s comet chaser, 
>Rosetta, were fired in a planned, 42-second trajectory correction manoeuvre 
>designed to 'fine tune' the spacecraft's approach to Earth. Rosetta is now 
>approaching Earth for its second planetary swing-by of 2007.
>
>More at:

>http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMKB9JJX7F_index_0.html




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