Darmstadt – The Rosetta probe has released the Philae lander, and now everything is ready for the first landing in the history of humanity on a comet, the 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The operation, unprecedented in the history of space exploration, was announced by the European Space Agency (ESA). The landing is scheduled for today at 5pm CET. The sequence will be managed from the control center in Darmstadt, Germany. “There were several problems in the preparation activities conducted during the night, but we decided to give the ‘ok-go’,” said the head of operations for the European Space Agency (ESA), Paolo Ferri. (9Colonne)
