CometInterceptor
@CometIntercept
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An European Space Agency mission, with key contributions from Japan, to visit a long-period comet or interstellar object. Launching in 2029!
Joined December 2018
It's 5 years to the day since @esa selected our mission as the top candidate for its 1st F-class mission. 🎉 After years of hard work, we continue to grow more excited as our 2029 launch approaches! Here are team members at the recent Science Working Team meeting at ESTEC. ☄️
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#CometInterceptor will be the first mission to visit a pristine comet — one entering the inner Solar System for the first time 👋 Here are top 5 mysteries Comet Interceptor aims to solve: 🔎 What does such a comet look like up close? ☄️ How are pristine comets different from
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Rubin Observatory will Inspire a New Era in Space Missions Without Ever Leaving the Ground https://t.co/0aHtaXdZMC
rubinobservatory.org
Vera C. Rubin Observatory will help scientists identify intriguing targets to prioritize for future space missions by detecting millions of new Solar System objects, and by revealing — in more detail...
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How big can a comet's bow shock get? We want to know, beause it affects space missions such as @CometIntercept , and also just because we want to know. Niklas Edberg of @IRF_Space lead a team with @HansnKiruna , @charlottestalks and several others to answer that question.
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Our open-access mission description paper, covering the science ☄️, instruments 📸, mission design 🚀, spacecraft 🛰️, and operations 📡 of @esascience @JAXA_en #cometinterceptor, is now available at Space Science Reviews.
link.springer.com
Space Science Reviews - Here we describe the novel, multi-point Comet Interceptor mission. It is dedicated to the exploration of a little-processed long-period comet, possibly entering the inner...
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⏰ ‘Wake up, Rosetta!’ https://t.co/JDuTnf8f3q After spirited shouts from around the world, 10 years ago this day the @ESA_Rosetta ‘alarm clock’ went off to wake up the spacecraft👉 https://t.co/yVQgQ3YGh1 ☄️🛰️The comet-chaser was up & ready! What followed next, is history. One
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Il gruppo #Sener 🇪🇸 ha firmato un contratto con @OHB_SE 🇮🇹 come prime contractor per la progettazione e realizzazione della capsula spaziale per la missione @CometIntercept dell' @esa e che incontrerà, per la prima volta, una cometa mai entrata prima nel sistema solare. 🚀
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The rocket for our mission - Ariane 6 - has yet to fly, but performed an important test on the ground today... 🚀
ESA’s new #Ariane6 rocket passed a major full-scale rehearsal today in preparation for its first flight, when teams on the ground went through a complete launch countdown followed by a seven-minute full firing of the core stage’s engine, as it would fire on a launch into space.
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Our team have had a very productive Science Working Team meeting at @esa #ESTEC this week! @esascience
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It's an exciting time for small body space missions! Many congratulations to our colleagues on the #OSIRISREx mission for the fanatic haul of primitive material recently delivered to Earth. A wealth of scientific results awaits!
Asteroids are the building blocks of our solar system, and this asteroid contains the building blocks of life. Our initial analysis of the 4.5-billion-year-old rocks from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by #OSIRISREx shows evidence of carbon and water. https://t.co/Wg3Zq4dxBP
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🌞🌍🪐 Arrr, our #SolarSystemExplorers help us make sense of our celestial abode, from graspin' the ways of our mighty star ‘n its ties to Earth, to venturin' forth to visit our neighboring planets, moons, and comets.
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It's 5 years to the day since the @esa website below appeared online, inviting proposals for the agency's first F-class mission. This led to the Comet Interceptor mission concept being born! ☄️🛰️
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@NASA @esa Soon-to-become Webb's #BFFinSpace, @CometIntercept will bring complementary observations. It will target a comet from the outskirts of the Solar System from the vast Oort cloud 3/4
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Looking forward to presenting and discussing results from our mission at some future ACM meeting! #ACM2023 2/2
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It's been a great opportunity this week for members of the Comet Interceptor team, proposing consortium, and friends, to get together, at #ACM2023 1/2
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ESA project scientist Michael Küppers presents an overview of our mission at the Asteroids Comets Meteors meeting in Flagstaff, AZ. #ACM2023
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Minulý týden ve Švédské Uppsale proběhl úspěšně test elektromagnetické kompatibility (EMC) některých vědeckých přístrojů pro misi Comet Interceptor a to včetně detektoru elektronů (LEES) na jehož vývoji se naše katedra podílí. Takto to během samotného testu vypadalo:
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