The European Space Agency’s Comet Interceptor lies in wait

Colin Snodgrass; Geraint H Jones

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13470-1

The European Space Agency’s Comet Interceptor lies in wait

Colin Snodgrass, Geraint H Jones

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently selected Comet Interceptor as its first
‘fast’ (F-class) mission. It will be developed rapidly to share a launch with
another mission and is unique, as it will wait in space for a yet-to-bediscovered
comet.

Original language	English
Article number	5418
Journal	Nature Communications
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13470-1
Publication status	Published - 28 Nov 2019

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