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Fascinating: ESA is now preparing the Comet Interceptor mission

The spacecraft will be launched in 2029 into a parking orbit, lying in wait for a suitable target – a pristine comet from the Oort Cloud, or, unlikely but highly appealing, an interstellar object.

➡️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Comet_Interceptor

#ESA #CometInterceptor #comet #comets #OortCloud #3IATLAS #Astrodon #science #news

Fascinating: ESA is now preparing the Comet Interceptor mission

The spacecraft will be launched in 2029 into a parking orbit, lying in wait for a suitable target – a pristine comet from the Oort Cloud, or, unlikely but highly appealing, an interstellar object.

➡️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Comet_Interceptor

#ESA #CometInterceptor #comet #comets #OortCloud #3IATLAS #Astrodon #science #news

Fascinating: ESA is now preparing the Comet Interceptor mission

The spacecraft will be launched in 2029 into a parking orbit, lying in wait for a suitable target – a pristine comet from the Oort Cloud, or, unlikely but highly appealing, an interstellar object.

➡️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Comet_Interceptor

#ESA #CometInterceptor #comet #comets #OortCloud #3IATLAS #Astrodon #science #news

Fascinating: ESA is now preparing the Comet Interceptor mission

The spacecraft will be launched in 2029 into a parking orbit, lying in wait for a suitable target – a pristine comet from the Oort Cloud, or, unlikely but highly appealing, an interstellar object.

➡️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Comet_Interceptor

#ESA #CometInterceptor #comet #comets #OortCloud #3IATLAS #Astrodon #science #news

Fascinating: ESA is now preparing the Comet Interceptor mission

The spacecraft will be launched in 2029 into a parking orbit, lying in wait for a suitable target – a pristine comet from the Oort Cloud, or, unlikely but highly appealing, an interstellar object.

➡️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Comet_Interceptor

#ESA #CometInterceptor #comet #comets #OortCloud #3IATLAS #Astrodon #science #news

...I wrote a short summary for our group's website here. We still have work to do to understand cometary activity before #CometInterceptor shows us a brand new #comet some time in the next 5 or 6 years! scitechss.iaa.es/cometary-act...

Cometary activity challenges s...

Finally, some #PlanetaryScience! 😛 No offence to all the galaxies and cosmology, which is also fascinating, but this is why I'm interested in @vrubinobs.bsky.social's LSST. It will discover so many solar system objects, hopefully including the #CometInterceptor target! ☄️

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:67bgg4j34njbopitm62cvddy/post/3lsbvb7pz2c26

[#CometInterceptor] Cette nouvelle mission de l' European Space Agency - ESA sera lancée en 2028 par une fusée #Ariane6 en direction du point de lagrange L2. Elle y demeurera, le temps qu'une #comète jugée scientifiquement "intéressante" s'approche du Soleil. Elle sera ensuite placée sur une trajectoire d'interception.

Les trois satellites qui composent cette mission embarquent une instrumentation poussée - notamment l'expérience #DFP (Dust, Field and Plasma) dédiée aux mesures multi point de l’environnement ionisé et poussiéreux d'une comète. L'un des instruments de cette expérience, l'instrument #LEES (Low-Energy Electron Spectrometer) - un #spectromètre d’électrons de basses-énergies (1 eV-1 keV) - a été conçu et réalisé par l’IRAP. Il vient de passer avec succès une série de tests environnementaux (température, vibrations et chocs) qui ont permis de vérifier son design et sa bonne tenue vis-à-vis des contraintes mécaniques et thermiques qu’il rencontrera lors de son lancement puis dans l’espace. Cette campagne de tests validée permet ainsi de lancer la fabrication du modèle de vol de l’instrument qui sera livré début 2026 à CBK en Pologne.

Info+ : https://www.irap.omp.eu/2025/05/regime-de-choc-avec-cuisson-basse-temperature-pour-lees-bien-secouer-avant-de-servir/

Read more : https://www.irap.omp.eu/en/2025/05/shock-regime-with-low-temperature-cooking-for-lees-shake-well-before-serving/

Just presented my work to the #CometInterceptor SWT on.. you guessed it, thermophysical modelling of #comet #67P ☄️

First thing is attending (remotely) another Science Working Team meeting of #CometInterceptor. The most exciting news so far is that there will be a public competition at some point to name the spacecraft from their current boring A, B1, and B2 🙂🛰️

Traveling again! Waiting for the 🚄 with a 🥐 (🔭 visible in background). I'm popping over to #Marseille for the day to see old colleagues at #LAM. Also to give a talk, and have web meetings with other colleagues and a #CometInterceptor instrument meeting. Phew, it's gonna be a busy day!

Very interested in the launch of #Ariane 6, the rocket that will carry the #CometInterceptor spacecraft in a few years time! 🚀🛰️

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Had an interesting talk about Arrokoth in a recent #CometInterceptor meeting. Will be fascinating to compare the appearance of this Kuiper belt object in situ with an incoming comet from there or the Oort cloud #PlanetSci

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[#Comètes à la Une] En marge du lancement réussi de la mission #Hera de l'ESA, l'IRAP a accueilli un colloque dédié à la mission #CometInterceptor ... tandis que la comète #Tsuchinchan-ATLAS s'approchait du #Soleil ! 💫 ✨ 🌠

Pour illustrer cette conjonction d'événements, la vidéo de Nicolas André, chercheur @cnrs à l'IRAP et enseignant à l' ISAE-SUPAERO : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xkJOIxD8qAk

[#ScienceNews @IRAP ] In 2029, the ESA and JAXA joint #CometInterceptor mission will take off from the Kourou Space Center aboard an #Ariane6. Objective: to study a #comet in its original state - or even an object of interstellar origin.

On March 5, @IRAP delivered the functional electrical model of the Low-Energy Electron Spectrometer (1 eV-1 keV) which is part of the #DFP (Dust, Fields, Particles) experiment. The future is on the way! 👍

Details+ : https://www.irap.omp.eu/en/2024/03/delivery-of-the-electrical-model-of-the-lees-instrument-for-the-comet-interceptor-mission/

[ActuScience @IRAP ] En 2029, la mission #CometInterceptor de l'ESA et de la JAXA décollera du Centre Spatial de Kourou au moyen d'une #Ariane6. Objectif : étudier une #comète dans son état d'origine - voire un objet d'origine interstellaire.

Le 5 mars dernier, l' @IRAP a livré le modèle électrique fonctionnel de l’instrument Low-Energy Electron Spectrometer (1 eV-1 keV) qui fait partie de l’expérience #DFP (Dust, Fields, Particles). L'avenir est en marche ! 👍

Infos+ : https://www.irap.omp.eu/2024/03/livraison-du-modele-electrique-de-linstrument-lees-pour-la-mission-comet-interceptor/

Introduction: space plasma physicist here, at the Space Research Insitute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) working on #Galileo (Jupiter), #Cluster, #VenusExpress, #Rosetta, #BepiColombo, #JUICE, #CometInterceptor, #HeavyMetal. Main interest is ULF waves in space plasmas.