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ESA Ready to Give Rosetta’s Philae the Green Light

Medicine & Technology Nov 11, 2014

It’s been a mission ten years in the making, and after a final green light from mission control tonight, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta Mission will deploy its handy little lander named “Philae” onto the surface of the far off Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko it met up with earlier this summer.

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ESA Ready to Give Rosetta’s Philae the Green Light

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