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Swedish Rendezvous Near Mars
Posted by george on 24th February 2007
Rosetta fly-by of Mars, European Space Agency animation
The headlines here talk of “a Swedish satellite instrument meeting in space” but the meeting will be long distance.
Two of the three satellite instruments were made by the Institute for Space Physics in Kiruna, the other is from the Institute for Space Physics in Uppsala.
One of the instruments from Kiruna, Aspera-3, is on the Mars Express probe, which has been orbiting the red planet since Christmas of 2003.
There are two Swedish instruments on Rosetta, a European Space Agency probe on its way to the comet Churyomov-Gerasimenko, where it will arrive in 2014.
But at 01:53 hrs UTC Sunday morning Rosetta will pass Mars, getting as close as 250 kilometers, so it can measure space weather near the planet.
Mars Express
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