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Jun 11

ESA's "Fly Your Thesis!" 2011 campaign

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Source: ESA

The second series of flights in ESA's 'Fly Your Thesis!' programme concluded recently. After many months of preparation, the 10-day campaign culminated with four student experiments making three parabolic flights aboard the Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft. (read more)

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Jun 11

Rosetta to sleep through loneliest leg of comet mission

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Source: ESA


Artist's impression of the Rosetta. Image credits: ESA.

On 8 June, mission controllers will have the first opportunity to switch ESA's Rosetta comet-hunter into deep-space hibernation for 31 months. During this loneliest leg of its decade-long mission, Rosetta will loop ever closer toward comet 67-P, soaring to almost 1000 million km from Earth. (read more)

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