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The European Space Agency's Comet Interceptor lies in wait
Colin Snodgrass, Geraint H. Jones, 2019. Nature Communications.
Describes the mission concept: a spacecraft parked at the Sun-Earth L2 point until a dynamically new comet, or an interstellar object if one is reachable, is found, then sent to fly past it with two sub-probes. Nature Communications 10, 5418.
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The one approved mission that could reach a future interstellar object.
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Snodgrass, C., & Jones, G. H. (2019). The European Space Agency's Comet Interceptor lies in wait. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13470-1
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Snodgrass, Colin and Geraint H. Jones. “The European Space Agency's Comet Interceptor lies in wait.” Nature Communications (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13470-1.