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Rosetta is a robotic spacecraft built and launched by the European Space Agency to perform a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It is part of the ESA Horizon 2000 cornerstone missions and is the first mission designed to both orbit and land on a comet.Rosetta was launched in March 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket and will reach the comet in May 2014.

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