On This Day In Space: Sept. 2, 2016: Lost and found! Rosetta sees Philae lander on Comet 67P

On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. Philae is a spacecraft about the size of a washing machine, and it was dropped off at Comet 67P by another spacecraft named Rosetta in November 2014.

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On This Day In Space: Sept. 2, 2016: Lost and found! Rosetta sees Philae lander on Comet 67P
On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. Philae is a spacecraft about the size of a washing machine, and it was dropped off at Comet 67P by another spacecraft named Rosetta in November 2014.