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April 06, 2015

Scary times for Europe's comet-chaser Rosetta
Paris (AFP) April 2, 2015
Europe's pioneering probe Rosetta battled breakdowns with navigation and communication with Earth after it ran into blasts of dust and gas from the comet it is tracking, mission control said Thursday. Swooping close to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Rosetta "experienced significant difficulties" last weekend, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. "The spacecraft has now been successfully recovered, but it will take a little longer to resume normal scientific operations," ESA said in a blog. ... read more

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