Giotto was a European Space Agency robotic space probe launched in 1985 to study Halley Comet, flying within a few hundred kilometers of its nucleus in March 1986 and returning the first close up images ever taken of a comet nucleus. The spacecraft survived the encounter despite being struck by cometary dust, though the impacts damaged some of its instruments and knocked it briefly off course. After its Halley encounter, Giotto was redirected to fly past a second comet, Grigg-Skjellerup, in 1992, making it the first spacecraft to visit two comets.
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Giotto was the European Space Agency's first deep-space mission, flying past Halley's Comet in 1986.
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Cometary flyby
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British Aerospace
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- In Group: Comet Probes, Giotto is a European robotic spacecraft mission from the European Space Agency. The spacecraft flew by and studied Halley's Comet and in doing so became the first spacecraft to make close up obse
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