Waiting for a signal from #Philae
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/03/10/waiting-for-a-signal-from-philae
This week, #Rosetta will begin listening for signs that #philae is still “alive”. This report is provided by the German Aerospace Center, DLR. It would be very lucky if a signal were to be received from Philae at 05:00 CET on 12 March 2015. The #lander finally came to rest on 12 November 2014 in a rather shaded location on #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and it needs to receive sufficient energy before it can #Wake_up and begin communicating. This is, however, the first possibility to receive a signal from Philae; therefore, the communication unit on the #rosetta orbiter will be switched on to call the lander. “Philae currently receives about twice as much solar energy as it did in November last year,” says Lander Project Manager Stephan Ulamec from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum (...)