MIT Technology Review June 20, 2019
On June 19, the European Space Agency announced plans to launch a fleet of three small spacecraft in 2028 and loiter a million miles away until an interesting and accessible comet is found. The Interceptor will tag along with Ariel, a larger observatory designed to study the atmospheres of planets orbiting distant stars. Two of the spacecraft will pass close to the comet’s nucleus where they hope to gather enough data to understand the structure of both the nucleus and the comet’s tail. The third spacecraft will act as a backup and data relay…read more.
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