After 10 years and a journey of 6.4 billion kilometers across the Universe, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has reached its ultimate goal: to approach comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in order to study its behaviour and composition in the hope of better understanding the evolution of our own solar system.

In the late ’90s, SPACEBEL prepared a validation environment for Rosetta on behalf of Astrium GmbH (Germany) - nowadays Airbus Defence & Space, industrial prime contractor. This test system is used to check and validate the performance of the flight software prior to its departure into Space.
Since then, SPACEBEL has continued to develop embedded software validation systems to serve other Space missions.

Moreover, VTS, the visualisation tool for Space Data developed by SPACEBEL in Toulouse for CNES was used in the frame of this historic mission in order to monitor the separation, descent and landing phase of the Philae lander as well as the first science sequence on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.