Deep space manoeuvre for Rosetta before hibernation
Submit on Thursday, January 20th, 2011 22:56
Throughout this week, Rosetta is performing a large deep-space manoeuvre (around 800 m/s) to finally target Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The manoeuvre is split into four main velocity changes, with a last adjustment planned on 10 February.
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