14 November 2014
Pioneering Philae completes main mission before hibernation
... being out of communication visibility with the lander since 09:58 GMT / 10:58 CET on Friday, Rosetta regained contact with Philae at 22:19 GMT /23:19 CET last night. The signal was initially intermittent, but quickly stabilised and remained very...
01 December 2014
Rosetta comet success SpaceShipTwo
... bounce as it landed on the surface of Comet 67P, Philae, the little 100kg sub-probe to ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, ...cent data stream success. It is hoped that the sleep-mode that Philae is in may change and, once sunlight is received to on-board solar...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... for a real multi-national cooperation project. There were highlights that caught global attention such as when Philae landed on a comet in 2014, and then half a century later when a mini submarine was successfully plunged under...
25 August 2015
Rosetta Experts to Present the Mission at International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem
...a rendezvous with a comet nucleus and delivered a lander module, Philae, onto its surface. The mission realization required almost 30 years ... the rendezvous with the comet and the landing of Philae, its mission continues today” said Dr. Paolo Ferri,...
29 September 2016
Rosetta on the way to its final resting place on Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...signal to reach Earth. Credit: ESA Rosetta, along with the Philae lander probe, were launched in March 2004, and have traveled...over six billion kilometers before reaching the comet in 2014. Philae landed on the comet's surface in November 2014. The ...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
...looking for heavy organic molecules up to amino acids. COSAC on Philae should have been able even to derive the chirality of amino ... surface is very hard, at least at the location where Philae is now. This is quite unexpected and will certainly shed ...
