ESA's Technology Research Programme for Comet-Nucleus Sample-Return

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Oct 2000

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American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #32, #26.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1040

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The International Rosetta Mission - the rendezvous with comet 46P/Wirtanen originally had been conceived as a comet-nucleus sample-return mission. To prepare the enabling technology for such a challenging mission, ESA had initiated a number of industrial studies to address critical areas like sample acquisition and handling, anchoring in low temperature dust/ice mixtures and sample preservation and return. We will provide an overview of these study results and discuss potential application for future missions. The results of the thermal-vacuum tests of the sample-return canister will be presented. They provided a prove-of -concept for a sample storage and return at temperatures below 120 K.

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