Sentences with phrase «lander onto»

Coincidentally, the plan is to to release the lander onto comet C - G from a cruising altitude similar to an airplane on Earth.

An illustration of the Rosetta orbiter launching its Philae lander onto Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.

Not exact matches

As the European Space Agency's Philae lander bounced and settled onto the surface of comet 67P / C - G's crumbly nucleus it wasn't just space exploration, it was time travel.

Laboratory experiments the team carried out on Earth suggest the thrusters would have melted the top millimetre or so of this layer and then could have splashed the melted water onto the lander's leg.

As of press time, Rosetta is scheduled to drop a lander, named Philae, in mid-November onto a site on the comet's surface named Agilkia — another space exploration first.

In November, potentially the most difficult part of the mission will take place when Rosetta dispatches a lander called Philae onto the comet's surface.

As the hours pass, it seems increasingly likely that the lander crashed onto the Red Planet instead of making a gentle touchdown.

In the weeks after NASA's InSight mission reaches Mars in September 2016, the lander's arm will lift two science instruments off the deck and place them onto the ground.