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Thursday 13 November 2014 5:07 am|Updated:Friday 07 June 2019 4:36 pmDid Rosetta land on comet 67P  ESA mission probe briefly bounced off but has just touched down againBy: Sarah SpickernellShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleHumankind landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time ever yesterday ndash; and has now done it again.The European Space Agency  ESA  Rosetta landing probe touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after spending seven hours descending from the mothership, sending a confirmation signal to Earth at 16:05 UK time yesterday. It was a huge breakthrough for all those working on the project at the agency s mission control centre in th stanley cup becher e German city Darmstadt ndash; Rosetta has spent the last ten years travelling through the solar system to get ready for this moment, and has chased the comet over a cumulative distance  stanley cup canada of 6.4bn km during that time.It has cost the ESA a total of $1.75bn  euro;1.12bn , but there was every chance the landing would not be successful. The target landing zone for the comet was considered to be very challen polene france ging due to its uneven terrain of cliffs, boulders and steep slopes.But shortly after the good news was received, ESA engineers realised the landing probe had bounced hundreds of metres back up off the surface after first touching down.Now, after a tense few hours of waiting, scientists have received a secon Xffu Credit Suisse freezes  pound;4bn linked to Russia after US sanctions
Thursday 14 October 2010 2:20 am|Updated:Thursday 30 May 2019 7:06 amPrivate equity firms court partners for Yahoo bidBy: John DunneShareFacebookSh stanley de are on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailAdd as a preferredsource on GoogleSeveral private equity firms have approached Internet and media companies including News Corp and AOL  stanley at to gauge their interest in buying out Yahoo, a source with knowledge of the approaches said.The news comes as Yahoo, the No.2 search engine in the United States behind Google Inc , struggles to revive its revenue growth under the management of Chief Executive Carol Bartz, and to rebuild its buzz among consumers amid competition from social networking sites such as Facebook.A potential deal would be contingent on Yahoo selling its prized Asian assets, including a 4 stanley deutschland 0 percent stake in Chinarsquo  Alibaba Group and 34.5 per cent of Yahoo Japan, the source told Reuters on Wednesday on condition of anonymity because discussions were not public.Talks with News Corp and AOL began about two weeks ago and intensified in recent days, but Yahoo had not yet been approached as talks were still in their early stages, the source said.Yahoo shares, which finished Wednesday up nearly 6 percent, gained another 9.5 per cent to $16.71 in extended trading. Shares in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan rose in Asia trading. Speculation of private equity interest in Yahoo, which is also struggling to stem an exodus of senior executi