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Limits RegistryThe European Space Agency's Philae lander, deployed from the Rosetta spacecraft, achieved the first controlled landing on a comet on November 12, 2014, touching down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — though its anchoring harpoons failed to fire, causing it to bounce before settling in a shadowed location that limited its solar power, it still returned the first-ever images and data from a comet's surface.
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The European Space Agency's Philae lander, deployed from the Rosetta spacecraft, achieved the first controlled landing on a comet on November 12, 2014, touching down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — though its anchoring harpoons failed to fire, causing it to bounce before settling in a shadowed location that limited its solar power, it still returned the first-ever images and data from a comet's surface.
The year of the first successful controlled landing of a spacecraft on a comet's surface.
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Limits Registry. LR-FIRST-COMET-LANDING. First spacecraft landing on a comet. 2026.