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Philae (/ ˈ f aɪ l iː / [6] or / ˈ f iː l eɪ / [7]) was a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft [8] [9] until it separated to land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, ten years and eight months after departing Earth.
Rosetta and Philae. Philae detached from Rosetta on 12 November 2014 at 08:35 UTC, and approached 67P at a relative speed of about 1 m/s (3.6 km/h; 2.2 mph). [87] It initially landed on 67P at 15:33 UTC, but bounced twice, coming to rest at 17:33 UTC. [15] [88] Confirmation of contact with 67P reached Earth at 16:03 UTC. [89]
2 September 2016 - Rosetta finds its lander Philae wedged against a large overhang. [47] 30 September 2016 — The Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by an attempt to soft-land close to a 130 m (425 ft) wide pit, called Deir el-Medina, [48] on comet 67P. The walls of the pit contain 0.91 m (3 ft) wide so-called "goose bumps", considered to be ...
Since it's been a year since Rosetta landed on the comet it orbited for a couple of years, you'd think the ESA had already decoded everything the vessel sent back before its demise. Apparently ...
Ten years, four billion miles, and several complicated maneuvers later, the Rosetta probe is readying itself to enter orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (that's Chury, for short) and ...
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10 September 2014: First spacecraft to orbit a comet nucleus (67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko). ESA Rosetta [61] 12 November 2014: First soft landing on a comet (67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko). ESA Philae [62] 6 March 2015: First flyby and orbit of a dwarf planet . First spacecraft to orbit two separate celestial bodies. USA (NASA) Dawn [63] July 2015
Matthew Graham George Thaddeus Taylor (born 1973) is a British astrophysicist employed by the European Space Agency.He is best known to the public for his involvement in the landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission (European Space Agency)'s Philae lander, which was the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus.