I've been following the story here, which has a live feed to the ESA: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...how-well-do-it
It will be quite an amazing feat should they pull it off.
I've been following the story here, which has a live feed to the ESA: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...how-well-do-it
It will be quite an amazing feat should they pull it off.
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Success! Lander has toucjed down intact and is sending signals back.
They should have sent a second spacecraft to take video of the first one landing, just for my own amusement, and of course astronomical surveillance.
What's crazy is the probe landed, failed to secure itself properly, bounced off the target, then landed AGAIN and managed to properly dig into the surface. I don't think you get a redo all that often in space aviation.
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