Rosetta

Mission overview

Rosetta was the first mission to orbit a comet and to deploy a lander, Philae, to a comet's surface.

Escorted comet 67P through perihelion and landed Philae in 2014.

Mission	Type	Agency	Launch	Status
BepiColomboMercury	Orbiter	ESA	2018-10-20	En route
Venus ExpressVenus	Orbiter	ESA	2005-11-09	Completed
Mars ExpressMars	Orbiter	ESA	2003-06-02	Active
JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer)Jupiter and its icy moons	Orbiter	ESA	2023-04-14	En route
Solar OrbiterThe Sun	Solar observatory	ESA	2020-02-10	Active
GaiaSun–Earth L2	Astrometry observatory	ESA	2013-12-19	Completed

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

ESAEuropean Space Agency
European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.

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