Philae lander
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Philae (previously known as RoLand) is the name of the lander that accompanies the Rosetta spacecraft. It is designed to land on a comet (67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko) shortly after arrival.
External links
- Rosetta website (http://sci.esa.int/home/rosetta/)
- Rosetta Lander (http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/a.j.ball/publications/online/capcom.html) an article by Andrew J Ball, 1997.
- Philae site (http://roland.mpae.gwdg.de/) at gwdg.de