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> Since its launch in 2004, Rosetta has made three flybys of Earth and one of Mars to help it on course to its rendezvous with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, encountering asteroids Steins and Lutetia along the way.

This is quite a feat of engineering. How did they compute the trajectories? Most things if you throw them into space will never be seen or heard from again.

parent mrcactu5 12 years ago

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