06 September 2016
Philae's final resting place has been found
... end of a long, painstaking search,” says Patrick Martin, ESA’s Rosetta Mission Manager. “We were beginning to think that Philae would remain lost forever. It is incredible we have captured this at the final hour.” Dropping a lander onto a comet...
March 2017
ROSETTA AND PHILAE: Outstanding climax to pioneering mission
... was initially a manual process, that they managed to progressively automate in the first months around the comet. Philae landing site image from a height of arpound 10 km. The final characterisation phase was a close observation of several candidate...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... led to a first night of little sleep and emergency teleconferences with Rosetta’s management. In particular, another scheduled reboot of Philae was planned the evening prior to the landing and doubts were raised if this should be attempted at this...
March 2016
Captivating hearts and minds
... of stories to be told. In the case of Rosetta and Philae, there were two protagonists that complemented each other quite easily. The... when combined with the conversations between Rosetta and Philae on Twitter, and when cartoon images were released...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... have imagined that it would become a ‘superstar’ and draw such global attention. I am in awe of the clockwork precision of Philae’s landing on the comet – the computations which made it possible are mind boggling and the information gathered...
14 June 2015
Rosetta’s Philae lander awakens
... several months due to limited sunlight at its landing site (its secondary rechargeable battery is powered by solar panels). Philae’s awakening is great news due to the major importance of the Rosetta mission, which is doing a detailed study of the...
