Space mission
Giotto
ESA's mission to Halley's Comet, which flew through the comet's coma in 1986 and returned the first close-up images of a cometary nucleus, later re-targeted to comet Grigg–Skjellerup.
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- Space mission
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Connections
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NASA/ESA/Giotto Project · NASA media (public domain)
- Type: Space mission
- Domain: Scientific connections
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Observe
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Measure
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Locate
Visited Halley's Comet.
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Connect
6 graph relations shape the knowledge viewport.
- Object type
- Space mission
- Graph relations
- 6
- Verified sources
- 1
- Image records
- 1
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Status
- Graph entity
Scientific map
Mission context
- Visited
Halley's Comet
- Visited
Grigg–Skjellerup
- Member of group
Flyby Mission
- Launched by
Ariane 1
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Mission architecture
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- Launched byAriane 1
- Operated byESA
- Member of groupFlyby Mission
- VisitedGrigg–Skjellerup
- VisitedHalley's Comet
- VisitedHalley's Comet
Image provenance
Photography as evidence
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Curated next objects
Halley's Comet
A short-period comet (1P/Halley) that returns to the inner Solar System roughly every 76 years.
cometGrigg–Skjellerup
A Jupiter-family comet visited by ESA's Giotto in 1992 during its extended mission, after Giotto's earlier encounter with Halley.
mission classFlyby Mission
A spacecraft that passes a small body once at high speed, gathering images and data during a brief encounter. Flybys are the cheapest way to reach a new target — Giotto at Halley, Deep Space 1 at Borrelly, Lucy at the Trojans.
launch vehicleAriane 1
Europe's first launcher, which established independent access to space and orbited the Giotto probe to Halley's Comet.
organizationESA
astronomerEdmond Halley
Edmond Halley was an English astronomer who computed the orbit of the comet that now bears his name and predicted its return.
Observation
How this was captured
- Source
- NASA
- Observation date
- 1986-03-14
Data
Scientific data & provenance
Data & provenance
- Stable ID
space_mission:giotto- Type
- Space mission
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Relationships
- 6
- Graph version
- 1.0.0
Dataset membership
Open data
In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld
Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/space_mission:giotto
Scientific quality
Partial3 of 7 applicable dimensions complete, 1 partial
- Description
- Complete
- Source coverage
- Partial
- Relationship coverage
- Complete
- Review coverage
- None
- Citation coverage
- None
- Image coverage
- Complete
- Timeline coverage
- None
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Sources & references
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- ESAEuropean Space Agency
European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.