Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

DLR), began a few days before the actual landing. Rosetta was placed on the necessary trajectory to deploy Philae from an altitude of approximately 22 kilometres. On 11 November (coinciding with the ...

The unmanned probe Rosetta will release the 100-kilogram lander Philae, shown in this artist's conception, at 0835 GMT (3:35 ET) on Nov. 12. (J. Huart/ESA; ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD ...

Rosetta completed its free-fall descent at the ... such as getting a spacecraft into orbit around a comet and the unprecedented landing of a probe on the surface. A handful of previous spacecraft ...

But the Rosetta spacecraft revealed today that is not the case. The European Space Agency released the first images of Philae's bumpy landing today. Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander ...

Its CIVA (Comet Infrared and Visible Analyser) cameras took the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 ...

On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...

The mission consisted of the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander ... DLR played a major role in the construction of the lander and operated the Lander Control Center (LCC), from where the difficult ...

The Rosetta-Philae mission aimed to explore comet 67P in detail, but unexpected challenges changed the course of its success. From the initial landing issues to other technical troubles, explore what ...

The landing team at mission control in Darmstadt first had to sweat through a tense seven-hour countdown that began when Philae dropped from the agency's Rosetta space probe as both it and the ...