International Rosetta Mission: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- March 1, 1995
- Declared end
- not declared
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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Description published by the archive
ESA's Rosetta mission launched on 2 March 2004. Designed to do a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, it was the first spacecraft to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander to the surface of a comet. The spacecraft first encountered the comet in August 2014, established orbit, and observed the nucleus of the comet in detail through perihelion. The mission ended on 30 September 2016 with a planned hard landing on the comet's surface.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Other targets declared
- 21 Lutetia (asteroid)
- 2867 Steins (asteroid)
- 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (comet)
- 9P/Tempel 1 (comet)
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:esa:psa:context:investigation:mission.international_rosetta_mission
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/