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@article{Jones:2024:10.1007/s11214-023-01035-0,
author = {Jones, GH and Snodgrass, C and Tubiana, C and Kuppers, M and Kawakita, H and Lara, LM and Agarwal, J and Andre, N and Attree, N and Auster, U and Bagnulo, S and Bannister, M and Beth, A and Bowles, N and Coates, A and Colangeli, L and van, Damme CC and Da, Deppo V and De, Keyser J and Della, Corte V and Edberg, N and El-Maarry, MR and Faggi, S and Fulle, M and Funase, R and Galand, M and Goetz, C and Groussin, O and Guilbert-Lepoutre, A and Henri, P and Kasahara, S and Kereszturi, A and Kidger, M and Knight, M and Kokotanekova, R and Kolmasova, I and Kossacki, K and Kuehrt, E and Kwon, Y and La, Forgia F and Levasseur-Regourd, A-C and Lippi, M and Longobardo, A and Marschall, R and Morawski, M and Munoz, O and Naesilae, A and Nilsson, H and Opitom, C and Pajusalu, M and Pommerol, A and Prech, L and Rando, N and Ratti, F and Rothkaehl, H and Rotundi, A and Rubin, M and Sakatani, N and Sanchez, JP and Simon, Wedlund C and Stankov, A and Thomas, N and Toth, I and Villanueva, G and Vincent},
doi = {10.1007/s11214-023-01035-0},
journal = {Space Science Reviews},
title = {The Comet Interceptor mission},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-01035-0},
volume = {220},
year = {2024}
}
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AB - Here we describe the novel, multi-point Comet Interceptor mission. It is dedicated to the exploration of a little-processed long-period comet, possibly entering the inner Solar System for the first time, or to encounter an interstellar object originating at another star. The objectives of the mission are to address the following questions: What are the surface composition, shape, morphology, and structure of the target object? What is the composition of the gas and dust in the coma, its connection to the nucleus, and the nature of its interaction with the solar wind? The mission was proposed to the European Space Agency in 2018, and formally adopted by the agency in June 2022, for launch in 2029 together with the Ariel mission. Comet Interceptor will take advantage of the opportunity presented by ESA’s F-Class call for fast, flexible, low-cost missions to which it was proposed. The call required a launch to a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point. The mission can take advantage of this placement to wait for the discovery of a suitable comet reachable with its minimum ΔV capability of 600 ms-1. Comet Interceptor will be unique in encountering and studying, at a nominal closest approach distance of 1000 km, a comet that represents a near-pristine sample of material from the formation of the Solar System. It will also add a capability that no previous cometary mission has had, which is to deploy two sub-probes – B1, provided by the Japanese space agency, JAXA, and B2 – that will follow different trajectories through the coma. While the main probe passes at a nominal 1000 km distance, probes B1 and B2 will follow different chords through the coma at distances of 850 km and 400 km, respectively. The result will be unique, simultaneous, spatially resolved information of the 3-dimensional properties of the target comet and its interaction with the space environment. We present the mission’s science background leading to these objectives, as
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DO - 10.1007/s11214-023-01035-0
PY - 2024///
SN - 0038-6308
TI - The Comet Interceptor mission
T2 - Space Science Reviews
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-01035-0
UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-023-01035-0
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/114155
VL - 220
ER -