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More Teasing By Space Droids UPDATE: False Alarm

There is something I would like to tell you… tomorrow at 17:00 CET. — Philae Lander (@Philae2014) October 27, 2020 Keith’s note: False alarm. Nothing interesting. This is what the dead lander had to say: Philae’s second touchdown site discovered at ‘skull-top’ ridge. FWIW teasing the media is the best way to have reporters start to ignore these please to pay attention to “news”. Just sayin’

  • NASA Watch
  • October 28, 2020
The Little Comet Lander That Could

Osiris Spots Philae Drifting Across Comet 67P/C “These incredible images show the breathtaking journey of Rosetta’s Philae lander as it approached and then rebounded from its first touchdown on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014.” Philae Spacecraft – robotic european space agency (ESA) lander, eBay “Highly complex spacecraft with on-board laboratory, solar panels (requires sun), inter-stellar communications pack. Power system, Thermal control system, Landing gear, Anchoring system (faulty). Buyer must […]

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  • November 17, 2014
Philae Has Landed on a Comet

Philae Image of Comet From 3 km “The image shows comet 67P/CG acquired by the ROLIS instrument on the Philae lander during descent on Nov 12, 2014 14:38:41 UT from a distance of approximately 3 km from the surface. The landing site is imaged with a resolution of about 3m per pixel.” Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae probe lands on comet “ESA’s Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, […]

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  • November 12, 2014
Earth's Comet Hunting Blind Spot

Earth at risk after cuts close comet-spotting program, scientists warn, The Guardian “The Earth has been left with a huge blind spot for potentially devastating comet strikes after the only dedicated comet-spotting program in the southern hemisphere lost its funding, leading astronomers have warned. The program, which discovered the Siding Spring comet that narrowly missed Mars on Sunday, was shut down last year after losing funding. “It’s a real worry,” […]

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  • October 20, 2014
Help Rescue The ISEE-3 Spacecraft And Put It Back to Work

ISEE-3 Reboot Project (IRP): Our plan is simple: we intend to contact the ISEE-3 (International Sun-Earth Explorer) spacecraft, command it to fire its engine and enter an orbit near Earth, and then resume its original mission – a mission it began in 1978. ISEE-3 was rechristened as the International Comet Explorer (ICE). If we are successful it may also still be able to chase yet another comet. Working in collaboration […]

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  • April 14, 2014
Comet ISON Heads Toward the Sun (Update)

Comet ISON May or May Not Still Exist “Comet ISON went around the sun on Nov. 28, 2013. Several solar observatories watched the comet throughout this closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion. While the fate of the comet is not yet established, it is likely that it did not survive the trip.” – Comet ISON Streams Toward the Sun (video) – Hyper Suprime-Cam Captures Comet ISON’s Long Tails, […]

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  • November 28, 2013
Watching a Dirty Snowball In The Night Sky

Christmas Comet Lovejoy Captured at Paranal “The recently discovered Comet Lovejoy has been captured in stunning photos and time-lapse video taken from ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The comet graced the southern sky after it had unexpectedly survived a close encounter with the Sun.”

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  • December 28, 2011
Stardust Goes Dark Today

NASA Turns off Stardust Today “On Thursday, March 24 at about 4 p.m. PDT (7 p.m. EDT), NASA’s Stardust spacecraft will perform a final burn with its main engines. At first glance, the burn is something of an insignificant event. After all, the venerable spacecraft has executed 40 major flight path maneuvers since its 1999 launch, and between these main engines and the reaction control system, its rocket motors have […]

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  • March 24, 2011
Stardust Images Are Arriving on Earth (In the wrong order)

Comet Hunter’s First Images on the Ground Comet Hunter’s First Images on the Ground “Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have begun receiving the first of 72 anticipated images of comet Tempel 1 taken by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft.” NASA Reschedules Stardust-NExT Comet Flyby News Conference “NASA has rescheduled a news conference covering images and early data from last night’s Stardust-NExT comet flyby for today at 12:30 p.m. […]

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  • February 15, 2011
Cometary Snow Storm

NASA Spacecraft Sees Cosmic Snow Storm During Comet Encounter “The EPOXI mission’s recent encounter with comet Hartley 2 provided the first images clear enough for scientists to link jets of dust and gas with specific surface features. NASA and other scientists have begun to analyze the images. The EPOXI spacecraft revealed a cometary snow storm created by carbon dioxide jets spewing out tons of golf-ball to basketball-sized fluffy ice particles […]

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  • November 18, 2010