Giotto
Retired ESA spacecraft which visited Comets Halley and Grigg-Skjellerup
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Overview
All data
47 statements · 60% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Launch vehicle
- Ariane 1 serial number: V14
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- Ariane 1 serial number: V14
- Significant event
- service retirement(July 23, 1992)
- flyby(July 10, 1992) location: 26P/Grigg–Skjellerup · refine date: 15:30:36 · closest approach: 200 km
- gravity assist(July 2, 1990) location: Earth · refine date: 10:01:18 · closest approach: 16,300 km
- flyby(March 14, 1986) location: Halley's Comet · refine date: 00:03:01 · closest approach: 596 km
- rocket launch(July 2, 1985) location: ELA-1 · refine date: 11:23:13
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- Mass
- 960 kg criterion used: launch weight
- Height
- 1.1 m applies to part: spacecraft bus
- 2.85 m applies to part: spacecraft
- Powered by
- spacecraft solar array nominal power output: 196 W
- Semi-major axis
- 0.885 AU
On other databases
11 identifiers linking Giotto across the web's reference databases
- Bing entity IDf1ca7738-135a-9a02-7473-f65451dd3589
- COSPAR ID1985-056A
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/Giotto
- Freebase ID/m/0kp84
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDgiotto
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0246402
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn95030864
- NAIF ID-78
- NSSDCA ID1985-056A
- SCN15875
- VIAF cluster ID147907673