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After 10 years spent travelling 4 billion miles, space probe Rosetta has released the landing craft Philae to descend onto a comet 300 million miles away. Due to touch down around 4pm, with confirmation around half an hour later if all the potential hazards have been avoided.
Probably the biggest event in space exploration since the moon landings 45 years ago, and a lot of the technical development was done in the UK.