An historic first that yielding tons of data and pride for the ESA, the European Space Agency as they successfully landed a washing machine size lander, the Philae lander on the surface of a comet traveling 41,000 mph! It took two slingshots around the earth and one around Mars for the Rosetta unmanned spaceship to … Read more
Even though the ESA will call this a success, and it is, don’t get me wrong, the Philae lander did not land perfectly as hoped on the comet surface. The harpoons designed into the feet of the Philae lander did not deploy which caused it to “bounce” twice before finally coming to rest on the … Read more
For the first time an unmanned space craft has safely landed on a comet! The European Space Agency has announced that the 220 pound Philae lander has touched down on the space comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Hundreds of millions of miles from Earth the Rosetta spacecraft released the “washing machine sized” lander on the icy … Read more