The Rosetta Space Mission is gaining ground on its target and is now orbiting within just 10 kilometres of the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. Over the last nine years the Atos team has been working with the CNES to make the Rosetta Space Mission a success. The team has been managing the mission’s operational procedures, keeping the IT and networks running, designing the schedule for the scientific operations of the landing craft, and monitoring the execution of on-board scientific experiments.

1. Rosetta’s first sighting of its target in 2014 – narrow
angle view. Taken on the 20th of March at about 5
million km to the comet.
Credits: ESA © 2014 MPS for OSIRIS-Team

2. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosetta’s OSIRIS
narrow-angle camera on 3 August from a distance of 285 km.
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS

3. This images shows Philae’s primary landing site, which will
target Site J, the centre of which is indicated by the cross
in this OSIRIS narrow-angle image. Credits:
ESA/Rosetta/MPS

4. Mosaic of Philae’s primary landing site
J, taken by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle
camera on 14 September 2014
from a distance of about 30 km.
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS

5. Single frame (and slightly cropped) NAVCAM image taken
on 21 September. Note this image shows the backup
landing site C. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM

6. Four image mosaic of Comet 67P/C-G using images taken
on 24 September. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM

7. Rosetta Mission selfie taken on 7 October at 16km, capturing
the side of the spacecraft and one of the 14 m-long solar wings.
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA

8. Meet the Atos team working with CNES to send
the Rosetta spacecraft over 6.5bn km into space
Over the last nine years the team has been working with the CNES to make the
Rosetta Space Mission a success. The team has been managing the mission’s
operational procedures, keeping the IT and networks running, designing the
schedule for the scientific operations of the landing craft, and monitoring the
execution of on-board scientific experiments.
From left: Antoine Charpentier, Maryse Garroussia, Michel Delaire, Laurent Peret,
Dominique Hallouard, Laurent Jean-Rigaud

9. Learn more about
the Rosetta Mission
• blogs.atos.net
• Q&A with Laurent Peret