Rosetta Programme
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta Programme was the first mission to orbit a comet’s nucleus and land a probe on its surface. Approved in 1993 as an ESA Horizon 2000 Planetary Cornerstone Mission, Rosetta launched in 2004, rendezvoused with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in 2014, deployed Philae, and ended with a controlled comet landing in 2016, with NASA and JPL contributions to instruments and the U.S. mission element.
Identity
- Aliases
- RosettaRosetta MissionRosetta–PhilaeRosetta Programme
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Rosetta Programme
- Status
- completed
- Types
- explorationscienceoperations
Details
- Description
- The European Space Agency’s Rosetta Programme was the first mission to orbit a comet’s nucleus and land a probe on its surface. Approved in 1993 as an ESA Horizon 2000 Planetary Cornerstone Mission, Rosetta launched in 2004, rendezvoused with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in 2014, deployed Philae, and ended with a controlled comet landing in 2016, with NASA and JPL contributions to instruments and the U.S. mission element.
- End Date
- 2016
- Leads
- Participants
- Start Date
- 1993
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 12:23:44 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 12:23:44 UTC