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After ten years and billions of miles of travel, the Philae lander parted today from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft and landed on the surface of a comet. Philae landed on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 11 a.m. EST, marking the first time a man-made craft has made a soft landing on a comet. The comet is traveling at about 34,000 miles...
About a decade ago, the European Space Agency made a date to meet up with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. After ten years and billions of miles, the agency’s Rosetta spacecraft caught up with its target on Wednesday. “After ten years, five months and...
As always, OWC is keeping an eye on space exploration news, and let's just say it’s been an exciting week. Not "hey, the aliens are here and they’ve ended all war and cured all disease!" exciting, but in the past...
With a name like Other World Computing, you can bet we're incredibly interested in space exploration. That's why we were so excited to read that China's Chang'e-3 spacecraft delivered a six-wheeled rover named Jade Rabbit to the moon on Saturday....
As you proabably already know, OWC has quite the affinity for advancements in both science and space. On May 29th, Planetary Resources launched their Kickstarter project “ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone”. A great project that involves a low Earth...
Image credit: Astronomy Education Services/Gingin Observatory We've got a space alert for the star watchers among our readers. It isn't often that a comet is visible to the naked eye, however, Comet PanSTARRS (not to be confused with Pawn Stars)...
