# Snodgrass 2019: The European Space Agency's Comet Interceptor lies in wait

> Colin Snodgrass, Geraint H. Jones, 2019. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The one approved mission that could reach a future interstellar object.

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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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