Rosetta’s first sighting of its target in 2014 – narrow angle view. Taken on the 20th of March at about 5 million km to the comet. Credits: ESA © 2014 MPS for OSIRIS-Team

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 3 August from a distance of 285 km.

Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS

This images shows Philae’s primary landing site, which will target Site J, the centre of which is indicated by the cross in this OSIRIS narrow-angle image. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS

Mosaic of Philae’s primary landing site J, taken by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on 14 September 2014 from a distance of about 30 km. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS

Single frame (and slightly cropped) NAVCAM image taken on 21 September. Note this image shows the backup landing site C. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM

Four image mosaic of Comet 67P/C-G using images taken on 24 September. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM

Rosetta Mission selfie taken on 7 October at 16km, capturing the side of the spacecraft and one of the 14 m-long solar wings. Credits: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA

Meet the Atos team working with CNES to send the Rosetta spacecraft over 6.5bn km into space

Over the last nine years the team has been working with the CNES to make the Rosetta Space Mission a success. The team has been managing the mission’s operational procedures, keeping the IT and networks running, designing the schedule for the scientific operations of the landing craft, and monitoring the execution of on-board scientific experiments.

From left: Antoine Charpentier, Maryse Garroussia, Michel Delaire, Laurent Peret, Dominique Hallouard, Laurent Jean-Rigaud

Learn more about the Rosetta Mission

• blogs.atos.net

• Q&A with Laurent Peret