A camera built in southern Estonia will fly on the European Space Agency’s Comet Interceptor mission, which aims to photograph an ancient comet from the outer reaches of the Solar System. Estonia has completed its first camera built for a deep-space mission, marking a milestone for the country’s growing space industry. The optical periscopic imager for comets, known as OPIC, was developed over eight years at the University of Tartu’s Tartu Obser…
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