#Philae wake-up triggers intense planning
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/06/15/philae-wake-up-triggers-intense-planning
The receipt of signals from #Rosetta’s #philae #lander on 13 June after 211 days of hibernation marked the start of intense activity. In coordination with its mission partners, ESA teams are working to juggle #rosetta’s flight plan to help with renewed lander science investigations. Philae has woken up after seven months in hibernation on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Hidden by shadows, Philae shut down on 15 November 2014 at 00:36 GMT after completing its main science #Operations sequence on the comet when the primary battery expired as expected after about 60 hours. Since March 2015, when Philae’s environmental conditions started to improve with higher surface temperatures and better illumination, the orbiter’s receiver had been turned on periodically to listen for signals from the lander (...)