
Dust from comet 67P filled Rosetta's star-tracker field with false stars during a March 2015 flyby, degrading attitude control and changing months of mission planning. The post During a close pass over comet 67P, Rosetta’s star trackers registered hundreds of sunlit dust grains as “false stars,” disorienting a spacecraft more than 400 million kilometres from Earth and forcing it into safe mode. appeared first on Space Daily .
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