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The European Space Agency’s Comet Interceptor lies in wait

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-be-discovered comet.

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Autores principales: Snodgrass, Colin, Jones, Geraint H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6882810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31780664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13470-1
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spelling pubmed-68828102019-12-03 The European Space Agency’s Comet Interceptor lies in wait Snodgrass, Colin Jones, Geraint H Nat Commun Comment 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-be-discovered comet. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6882810/ /pubmed/31780664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13470-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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