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In May 1985, following discussions by the European members of the ESA-NASA Primitive Bodies Science Study Group, a Comet Nucleus Sample Return mission was recommended by the ESA Solar System Working Group as a Planetary Cornerstone mission for the Horizon 2000 long-term science program (see Chapter 3).
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Champollion survived for a while in another iteration, as part of a comet lander/sample return technology demonstration associated with NASA’s Deep Space 4 mission. A drill on the lander was to obtain a sample which would be taken to the spacecraft, where it would either be analyzed or returned to Earth. In 1999 the mission was canceled.
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The name ‘Roland’ was dropped because the eponymous Frankish hero wasn’t favored by the German-led lander team.
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SCAPE stands for Self-Contained Atmosphere Protective Equipment.
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Bond, P. (2020). Creating A Comet Chaser. In: Rosetta: The Remarkable Story of Europe's Comet Explorer. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60720-3_4
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