Free Lecture: Rosetta - Europe's Comet Chaser

This lecture will be given by Paolo Ferri, Head of the Mission Operations Department at European Space Operations Centre at the European Space Agency.

This lecture will briefly introduce the Rosetta mission and its scientific objectives, describing also the spacecraft, its payload and its lander. The mission design and the operations performed in the past 10 years of flight, including the planets’ gravity assists, the asteroid flybys and the long hibernation phase, also a historical first, will be explained in detail. The challenges of the comet’s operations and the techniques and tools which have been developed and adopted to cope with them will be presented.