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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 's Philae lander successfully made the first soft landing on a comet nucleus when it touched down on Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014. [35] [36] [37] On 5 September 2016, ESA announced that the lander was discovered by the narrow-angle camera aboard Rosetta as the orbiter made a low, 2.7 km (1.7 mi) pass over the comet ...
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A robotic lunar lander launched by a private U.S. company was initially scheduled to reach the moon at 5:30 p.m. ET but was delayed. U.S. lands unmanned Odysseus spacecraft on moon [Video] Skip to ...
The Philae temple complex (/ ˈ f aɪ l iː /; Ancient Greek: Φιλαί or Φιλή and Πιλάχ, Arabic: فيلة Egyptian Arabic:, Egyptian: p3-jw-rķ' or 'pA-jw-rq; Coptic: ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ, ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕϩ, [1] [2] Coptic pronunciation: [ˈpilɑk, ˈpilɑkh]) is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt.
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Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.