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Rosetta starts tracking asteroid Steins

Submit on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 06:00

Heading toward its first target-asteroid, (2867) Steins, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has started using its cameras to visually track the asteroid and eventually determine its orbit with more accuracy.

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