Key facts
- Mission type
- Cometary flyby
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Cospar id
- 1985-056A
- Website
- www.esa.int
- Mission duration
- 7 years, 21 days
- Spacecraft type
- GEOS
- Manufacturer
- British Aerospace
- Launch mass
- 960 kg
- Power
- 196 W
- Launch date
- 11:23, 2 July 1985 (UTC) ( 1985-07-02T11:23:00Z )
- Rocket
- Ariane 1 V-14
- Launch site
- Kourou ELA-1
- Contractor
- Arianespace
- Disposal
- Decommissioned
- Deactivated
- 23 July 1992 ( 1992-07-23 )
- Reference system
- Heliocentric
- Perihelion altitude
- 0.73 AU
- Aphelion altitude
- 1.04 AU
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Giotto
- Operator
- European Space Operations Centre
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 1.85
- Mass
- 960
- Orbital period
- 304.6
- Official website
- sci.esa.int/giotto
- Image
- Giotto Whipple shield ESA239195.jpg
- Height
- 2.85
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1985-07-02
- space launch vehicle
- Ariane 1
- Commons category
- Giotto (spacecraft)
- uses
- spectrometer
- type of orbit
- heliocentric orbit
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.17334
- orbital inclination
- 2.09
- apoapsis
- 1.04
- periapsis
- 0.73
- different from
- Giotto
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.885
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Giotto was ESA's eerste 'deep space'-missie en had als doel om de komeet Halley te bestuderen. De sonde werd vernoemd naar de Italiaanse schilder Giotto di Bondone, die voor zijn werk "Aanbidding door de wijzen" in 1304 waarschijnlijk geïnspireerd werd door de verschijning van de komeet Halley.
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