ESA Favors New Rosetta Target That Would Use Untried Ariane Maneuver

TARGETING ROSETTA The European Space Agency favors a fallback scenario that would send its Rosetta comet mission toward Churyumov-Gerasimenko in February 2004. That option--one of three identified late last month for further study (AW&ST Mar. 31, p. 17)--has already been inscribed in the Ariane 5...

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