Rosetta Pressure Sensor Fails

Engineers at the French space agency CNES have detected the loss of a pressure sensor on the Rosetta Lander Magnetometer and Plasma Monitor (Romap) during checkout of the European Space Agency's Rosetta comet probe. Apparently the victim of a short circuit, the sensor was intended to measure ambient...

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