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Science 24 January 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5606, pp. 486 - 487
DOI: 10.1126/science.299.5606.486a
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PLANETARY EXPLORATION:
Europe's Comet Chaser Put on Hold Following Launcher Failure

Govert Schilling

NOORDWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS--The failure last month of an upgraded version of Europe's Ariane 5 launcher has forced the European Space Agency to cancel the planned January launch of Rosetta, a $1 billion science mission. Rosetta was set to perform an unprecedented feat: Catch up with a speeding comet, go into orbit around it, and dispatch a lander to its surface. Now the scientists don't know where they're going--or when.

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