Press Release: Europe to the conquest of comets: Commissioner Busquin welcomes Rosetta launch

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Series Details IP/04/286 (2.3.04)
Publication Date 02/03/2004
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The European Space Agency's Rosetta cometary probe was successfully launched on 2 March 2004 into an orbit around the sun, which will allow it to reach the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 after three flybys of the Earth and one of Mars.
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http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/index_en.htm
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