Rosetta Surface Science Package
As originally envisaged, the joint NASA/CNES Champollion was to be one of two surface science packages for the Rosetta mission to comet Wirtanen, alongside the German-led RoLand. Champollion was to provide for return of cometary samples to Earth.
This part of the Rosetta mission was withdrawn in late 1996 due to lack of funding from JPL.
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