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News Release from: Poeton Industries | Subject: Composite and hard chrome coatings
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 22 October 2002
Coatings protect comet lander's legs
Poeton Industries has supplied specialist coatings for the ESA's International Rosetta Mission, whose goal is to rendezvous with comet 46 P/Wirtanen.
Poeton Industries has supplied specialist coatings for the ESA's International Rosetta Mission, whose goal is to rendezvous with comet 46 P/Wirtanen Rosetta will achieve many breakthroughs during its odyssey, but one of the most exciting episodes of this ambitious mission will involve the first soft landing on one of these cosmic icebergs
This landmark event will be followed by the first panoramic images from a comet's surface and the first in situ analysis to find out what its ancient nucleus is made of.
Rosetta will study the nucleus of the comet and its environment in detail over a period of two years.
Poeton, whose surface coatings were specified on the first Space Shuttle and are currently used on the ESA's Beagle 2 Mars mission, has provided composite and hard chrome coatings for the aluminium leg subassemblies of the lander vehicle.
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