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Finmeccanica contributes essential technology for the Rosetta mission (3)

Rome, Italy - Many of the Rosetta probe’s on-board and ground-based instruments, as well as those of the mission’s Philae lander, are Finmeccanica-made

Today within the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Rosetta mission, the Philae lander touched down on the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. The Italian technical and scientific contribution among Research Institutes and Industry has been coordinated by ASI, the Italian Space Agency. The Finmeccanica companies Selex ES, Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space, have played key roles in the success of the m...

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Rome, Italy, 11/12/2014 16:11
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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