Waiting patiently for #Philae
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/03/20/waiting-patiently-for-philae
For the past eight days, #Rosetta has been sending signals to #philae and listening for a response, but the #lander has not yet reported back. This report is provided by the German Aerospace Center, DLR. Perhaps it is still too cold for the Philae lander to #Wake_up on #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Maybe its power resources are not yet sufficient to send a signal to the team at the DLR Lander Control Center. On 12 March 2015, the #rosetta orbiter began to send signals to the lander and listen for a response, but Philae has not yet reported back. “It was a very early attempt; we will repeat this process until we receive a response from Philae,” says DLR Project Manager Stephan Ulamec. “We have to be patient.” On 20 March 2015 at 05:00 CET, the communication unit on the Rosetta orbiter was (...)