SCP-XXXX's landing site, comet 67P.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is currently settled outside of extraterrestrial observations. As of this writing, SCP-XXXX is yet to be contained. Should it be captured, a standard containment unit is to be set aside at Area-19.
Further information on SCP-XXXX's possible retrieval is under Logistics Department review.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a robotic European Space Agency lander (publically refered to as "Philae") that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft until it separated to land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, ten years and eight months after departing Earth. On 12 November 2014, SCP-XXXX touched down on the comet, but it bounced when its anchoring harpoons failed to deploy and a thruster designed to hold the object to the surface did not fire. After bouncing off the surface twice, SCP-XXXX's third and final uncontrolled touchdown left it in a non-optimal location and orientation. Despite the landing problems, SCP-XXXX still managed to transmit over 60 hours of experiments, before official contact was lost on 9 July 2015.
To date, SCP-XXXX has managed to transmit over 200 short text messages directly to Earth, anomalously bypassing the object's lack of solar power and designed telecommunications system1. These messages are received by DLR's2 Lander Control Center in Cologne, Germany, which are later relayed to Area-19's main mission control centre for further analysis. Snapshots of SCP-XXXX's logs are below.
Addendum XXXX-1: SCP-XXXX, though silent, was finally identified unambiguously, lying on its side in a deep crack in the shadow of a cliff, in photographs taken by Rosetta on 2 September 2016 as the orbiter was sent on orbits closer to the comet. On 30 September 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by crashing in the comet's Ma'at region.






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