The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially announced that its historic comet-chasing Rosetta mission will be given an extended lease of life — running until September 2016.
The spacecraft, which arrived at Comet67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August 2014, has been given approval to continue its mission for an extra nine months, by which point it’s hoped it will have landed on the comet’s surface.
By: Daniel Culpan,
