ESA’s comet landing was just what the doctor ordered.
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Final Assembly and Testing Begins on NASA’s Next Mars Mission
Prime contractor Lockheed Martin Space Systems has started assembling the InSight lander that will carry a pair of European science instruments to the surface of Mars for a two-year seismology mission scheduled to launch in 2016.
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British Company Announces Crowdfunded Lunar Mission
Lunar Missions Ltd. is seeking to raise 600,000 British pounds over the next month via the crowdfunding website Kickstarter to support studies of Lunar Mission One, a lunar lander mission planned for 2024 with both science and public outreach goals.
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Philae Managers Say Recovery Possible as Comet Approaches Sun
Managers of Europe’s Philae comet lander made a virtue of a necessity in saying Philae’s overly shadowed location will be an advantage as Comet 67P approaches the sun in the coming months.
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Osiris Spots Philae Drifting Across Comet 67P/C
These incredible images show the breathtaking journey of Rosetta’s Philae lander as it approached and then rebounded from its first touchdown on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014. The mosaic […]
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Philae Mission May be Done
European probe goes in what may be permanent hibernation 57 hours after making its historic landing on Comet 67P.
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Philae Is Now Sleeping On A Comet
With its batteries depleted and not enough sunlight available to recharge, Philae has fallen into ‘idle mode’ — a possibly long silence. In this mode, all instruments and most systems […]
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Europe’s Next Mission: Capitalizing on Stunning Success of Philae
Landing the Philae probe on the surface of a comet 500 million kilometers from Earth after a 10-year voyage that included 30 months of satellite hibernation is a made-in-Europe masterstroke — all the more striking given how few thought it would work.
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Rough Landing Putting Comet Probe’s Science Team to the Test
Less than 24 hours after Philae’s landing on Comet 67 some 500 million kilometers from Earth, mission managers were waking up to the fact that they have a successful landing, but not at all in the spot they had targeted.
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Tel Aviv University Research Leads to Historic Comet Landing
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has landed on a comet. The momentous event represents the culmination of 35 years of research on comets by Prof. Akiva Bar-Nun […]
