Rosetta’s lander Philae is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these first two CIVA images confirm. One of the lander’s three feet can be seen in the foreground. […]
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European Spacecraft Touches Down on Comet
Europe on Nov. 12 successfully placed a 100-kilogram lander on a comet 500 million kilometers from Earth following a seven-hour descent from a satellite that had been chasing the comet for 10 years.
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Philae Image of Comet From 3 km
The image shows comet 67P/CG acquired by the ROLIS instrument on the Philae lander during descent on Nov 12, 2014 14:38:41 UT from a distance of approximately 3 km from […]
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Philae Prepares to Land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
The Agilkia landing site is seen on this image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken with Rosetta’s navigation camera on 6 November, just days before its lander Philae makes its historic descent […]
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NASA Television to Provide Coverage of European Mission Comet Landing
NASA Television and the agency’s website will provide live coverage from 6-8:30 a.m. PST (9-11:30 a.m. EST) of the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission’s scheduled landing of a probe […]
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Thales Alenia Officials Flabbergasted as Safety Concerns Sideline IXV
These officials said their 40-strong engineering team preparing the IXV for a mid-November launch aboard a European Vega had worked nights and weekends to make the November date.
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Space for our future exhibition ready to open in Brussels
The ‘Space For Our Future’ exhibition, created by ESA and the European Commission, will be formally opened on 28 October in Brussels by EC President José Manuel Barroso and ESA’s […]
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Dust Streams from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Rosetta’s comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is beginning to show a clearly visible increase in activity. While in the past months most of the dust emitted from the body’s surface seemed to originate […]
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The Perfume of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
How does a comet smell? Since early August the Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) is sniffing the fumes of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko with its two mass […]
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Aviation Week Announces Finalists – Annual Laureate Awards Honoring Outstanding Achievements in Aviation, Aerospace & Defense
Finalists of the 58th Annual Laureate Awards, honoring extraordinary achievements in the global aerospace arena, were announced yesterday. The awards will be presented on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at the […]
