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  European spacecraft set for date with comet on Nov 12

  World | Nov 07, 2014, 12:15 PM IST

  Washington: The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is now less than a week away from landing a robotic probe on a comet - a first-ever soft landing of a spacecraft on a space object.After sailing

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  European space mission to land on comet Nov 12

  World | Sep 28, 2014, 12:15 PM IST

  London: The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will deploy its lander Philae on a comet Nov 12.The comet - 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - is a remnant of the solar system's 4.6-billion-year history.The Philae's landing site, currently known