Only few hours left to Philae lander reach 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet!

Watch it live HERE.

I'm so excited, that's a huge step in space science :)

Fingers crossed and good luck, Philae!

Has it not landed yet? Or is it so far away that it may have already landed and we just need to wait for the signal to reach us back on Earth?
Edit: I see on the site, confirmation of landing expected at 16:00 UTC.

Indeed! Over 20 years of preparation for this mission cumulates in a few hours. If this succeeds it is another huge step for humanity in deep space exploration. We need to get out there and learn more about our Universe!

The lander Philae is on its about 20 km long way down to the comet since around 10:00 o'clock CET. I watched the undocking from Rosseta live on TV. The landing should be around 17:00 o'clock CET, but now it is all on automatic as far as I understood. With the signal transmission delay of about 30 minutes for the 500 million km distance, it will be hard to do last second corrections I suppose. The actual landing should be around 16:30, but we will not know if it worked until 17:00, due to the transmission delay.

I wonder why they do not have a live stream from one of the onboard cameras all the time. That would have been awesome, but I bet the transmission bandwidth is a problem and the technology of Rosetta is more than 15 years old. Measured by todays standards it is probably like steam-driven technology. ;-)

I hope the landing will be successful.

Awesome :) I really hope it'll go well ! Good luck little robot ! :)

Truly astounding

I wish them all the best of luck in their endeavors. If the landing is successful the data it will gather could give us many answers to the universe.

Will the comet pass close to the sun and have a vapour trail? That would be cool to see from the inside.

You can watch the course of the spacecraft here:
http://sci.esa.int/where_is_rosetta/

Some of the pictures Rosetta made already showed degassing from the surface, but it is still to far away to have a trail. I am not sure if this comet is one of those comets to develop a fully visible trail anyway (at least to be seen from Earth). I think by the time the comet will be close enough to the sun, Rosetta and Philae will probably be destroyed.

Take a look at this for example:
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/10/02/cometwatch-26-km-on-26-september/
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/07/cometwatch-4-november/

In wait for first pictures...

Thanks for the link - opened the stream and hoping for the best.

OT: Psychedelic black metal "Oranssi Pazuzu - Komeetta" -> Translates unsurprisingly as "Comet" ;) ...its "art". I guess.

I am following the live "feed" currently. I really hope it goes well.

seems stuffs working - but i doubt we will get fireworks :)

...they should have someone explaining whats going on, but it looks like its "success" or smoething.

But... I don't want to miss a thing :(

atm "we are on the comet"

I can't wait. The ship is programmed to engrave "I break for Martians" on the coma and then shove off.