I always marvelled at the antique mechanical Orreries with wishful thoughts of owning one but their price range (ie £1000 plus) was never within my bu...
That was certainly an emotionally rollercoaster ride. Philae, brave warrior and hard worker to the last breath and now sleeps again. A Towering achi...
oh man, Philae's tweeting is tugging on my heart strings...you can do it Philae!
They say that only the good die young but I have hope! STAY WITH US PHILAE! Altogether now, "I do believe in Philae, I do believe in Philae..."!
Quite a battle and a race against time they're having, huh? Fingers crossed for the battery to last long enough for uplinks this evening. If it does...
Thats great news! SO Philae will shine brightly and die young :)
Might be a good thing to have landed on the rim of a crater as there could be matter thrown out from impact there. Imagine the eventual geological fin...
I am not a twitter person but I do love reading the tweets from some of our recent space robots, such as Curiosity but I think the tweeting between Ph...
I am sure mine is real, Brian, it says "made in Sweetserland"...
Lander goes into “hibernation” if the battery runs down. It could survive in an inactive mode and wake up in a few months when it gets closer to the S...
Pierre made a great summary towards the hard edged press at the end of that really long update session. Basically, the success far far outweighs the ...
Little Philae sure is having a thrilling adventure. I am going to take the gripping/anchoring failure as a potential positive. Because Philae has dem...
...and it was nice to share the anticipation with you guys :)
"We landed twice" :D When he said it lift off again, my heart really sank then as he described the spinning stopping, my heart raced again as that p...
7pm GMT Doh, yes sorry :)