ESA announces triple-spacecraft mission to intercept an incoming "dynamically new" comet

ESA has given the green light to launch a triple spacecraft mission designed to make the first flyby of a comet visiting the inner solar system for the first time. Part of the space agency's Cosmic Vision Programme, the "Comet Interceptor" mission will be set in a standby orbit, where it will wait for the discovery of an incoming comet to intercept.

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