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We do not have the same instruments on board. Much more science will come, the goal is NOT to be the first, but to be the BEST.

Thanks a lot George !

YES. I was 2nd row from bottom, 3rd from left on the picture. Thanks for the picture I as the same, for info, We also tested Rosetta with the lander, was a meter away from me ! We really had fantastic times testing these spacecrafts. Jean-Luc

Hi Jim. I was Test Facilities Engineer, not really part of the Project bur the Test Centre had to offer our "customers"all the best dedicated facilities. Was really a challenge ! Impossible to insert a picture apparently. Had a picture at the front of the LSS with the whole team (testing &...

Mission was already quite a challenge with a spacecraft made of 4 parts, The the MTM (Mercury Transfer Module), the MTO (Mercury Orbiter), the Japanese Mercury Magnetic Orbiter (MMO) and the thermal shield (MOSIF), and the ionic propulsion. Adding a lander would have been too complex. Was...

Yes great picture. I had seen that as well visually, but no camera available. Reminded me when I was at Meudon's observatory 1m telescope in october or november 1982 with Audouin Dolfuss watching the occultation of Jupiter by the moon. Same night, early in the morning, we had a small asteroid...

There was another robotic freighter that you seem to ignore as it was rom Europe, it was ATV with an automatic docking system. There were 5 spacecrafts built, I tested the first one in the Large Space Simulator at ESTEC,