
Philae: The Little Lander That Could
The Philae Lander successfully transmits all its telemetry data to Earth with almost no battery to spare.
The Philae Lander successfully transmits all its telemetry data to Earth with almost no battery to spare.
In November 2014, the Rosetta space probe will launch a smaller probe to land on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that its Rosetta spacecraft spotted (and imaged) its destination comet.