First landing on a comet – Newspaper

A module on board the ship ‘Rosetta’ will perform on Wednesday’s unprecedented operation

The laboratory ‘Philae’ is anchored to the surface and send images and data

ANTONIO MADRIDEJOS / BARCELONA

Monday, November 10, 2014

Q hilae , a small robotic laboratory about 100 kilos, has remained for 10 years in anonymity, attached to the space probe Rosetta , waiting to reach the final order to disengage to travel alone and landing on its target: the rocky core of a comet long name called 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Well, after 6,500 million kilometers, the timing of this fascinating and complex operation has come. If the schedule provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) is satisfied, Philae be released next Wednesday morning at 9.35 and will land on the comet about seven hours …

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