Talk:Giotto (spacecraft)

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Infobox give wrong impression[edit]

According to the infobox the spacecraft entered into orbits around the various comets it visited. This is clearly not true. Thus, a different infobox should be used. I'll try to get to this if nobody beats me to it. ThreeBlindMice 02:10, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I used the same infobox as in the Voyager 2 or Cassini mission. The problem lies with the infobox, so I changed it to read "Satelite or flyby of". This would fix the problem with a lot of space mission that use that infobox. Other infoboxes are harder to use and of worse layout, in my opinion. Ricnun 09:39, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good work, thanks. ThreeBlindMice 18:00, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Where is it now?[edit]

Could someone knowledgeable add to the article: Where is the Giotto now? Where is it headed? Tempshill 20:27, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

For people in the UK, there's a current BBC documentary available on iPlayer: DestinationTitan, until 1:44am, 17 June 2012. I've not watched it myself yet - not sure whether I'll manage to. -- Trevj (talk) 19:52, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Labelling on orbit diagram[edit]

Órgita de Giotto? Koro Neil (talk) 10:23, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that appears incorrect, and we could do with an English-language version anyway which shouldn't be too difficult. ChiZeroOne (talk) 23:14, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Imaging capabilities[edit]

File:Halley Giotto.jpg... use it to illustrate the imaging capabilities of the probe? (Note: another fair-use rationale would need to be entered onto the file description page for this use) 70.29.208.129 (talk) 15:38, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

Reinhard, R. (1981). "The Giotto Project - a Fast Flyby of Halley's Comet". The Solar System and its Exploration. 164: 221. Bibcode:1981ESASP.164..221R.
Fechtig, Hugo; Rahe, J�Rgen (1984). "Comets and ESA's Space Mission GIOTTO to Halley's Comet". Naturwissenschaften. 71 (6): 275. Bibcode:1984NW.....71..275F. doi:10.1007/BF00396610. {{cite journal}}: replacement character in |first2= at position 2 (help)
Reinhard, R. (1982). "The Giotto mission to Halley's comet". Advances in Space Research. 2 (12): 97. Bibcode:1982AdSpR...2...97R. doi:10.1016/0273-1177(82)90293-9.

--Stone (talk) 19:43, 13 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Element abundance confusing[edit]

The article states that "The ratio of abundances of the comet's light elements excluding nitrogen (i.e. hydrogen, carbon, oxygen) were the same as the Sun's. The implication is that the constituents of Halley are among the most primitive in the Solar System." This seems to be contradictory to the 80% water composition. Did the author mean isotopic composition for each element? Is there any source? --FDominec (talk) 11:00, 4 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Science Instruments[edit]

I just added a section about the science instruments. The HMC instrument goes by two different names. On one ESA website (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/psa/giotto) it is called the Halley Multimeter Camera. On a different ESA website (https://sci.esa.int/web/giotto/-/31882-instruments) it is called the Halley Multicolour Camera. I used the later term because it makes more sense. HMC could image in multiple colours, but was not multiple meters wide. Nrl103 (talk) 00:54, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]