Thales Alenia Space have won the contract to design the mother ship for the Comet Interceptor mission, which will see one main spacecraft and two smaller robotic probes travel to an as-yet unidentified comet, and map it in three dimensions. The smaller probes (30cm in length) will be built by the Japanese Space Agency. For ...

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