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[Vanguard]

Nice, glad it's back in action!

 

[BlastProcessing]

When it starts asking "who is the creator?" then we can panic. For now let's just be excited!

Asking is ok, when it has an answer for "who is the creator?" is when we should panic.

 

[Hesemonni]

Thank you sun

#dead

 

[fabricated backlash]

Can you imagine the euphoria going on in mission control. I mean they expected a possibility to regain contact once it gets closer to the sun, but it must've been very hard to wait for an eventual wake up.

So glad Philae is back with power. This already historic achievement is far from finished.

 

[double jump]

What was the point of the probe ? Just data gathering ?

 

[DiipuSurotu]

lol @ the ESA. They should fund more projects like this and stop pouring billions of euros in trainwrecks like Galileo (the European GPS project which has constantly been delayed for over a decade).

 

[Dai101]

BRAVO!

Go lil' Phil!!

 

[fallout]

What was the point of the probe ? Just data gathering ?

That's generally all that scientific space probes do.

 

[way more]

What was the point of the probe ? Just data gathering ?

It's going to implant it's seed in the asteroid and make space babies.

 

[FUME5]

Cool.

 

[FoxSpirit]

"This is Philae, ESOC. Ready to resume operations. Over."

*everyone starts bawling*

And this is why I need to finish my engineering stuff eventhough aproaching 40.
It will be hard but my technichians heart is feeling this so much.

 

[DrForester]

Was it ever confirmed that it landed on it's side, and that it likely wont be able to use it's drill?

 

[anonymous_abc]

Nice, waiting for lots of news to come out of this soon.

 

[Monocle]

Rock on robobro!

 

[Clydefrog]

Latest pic

NO!!!!!

 

[Monocle]

Latest pic

"Pardon, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Xenu?"

 

[More_Badass]

Exclusive footage from NASA's control room

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Awesome, Randall Munroe has more lonely space probe comic material

 

[fallout]

Awesome, Randall Munroe has more lonely space probe comic material

The original landing comic has been updated:

http://xkcd.com/1446/

 

[Orbis]

Quick update, they're moving Rosetta closer on Tuesday with hope to improve communication. They had more contact last night (shorter bursts, could be due to poor orientation or just distance, thus the orbit changes).

From The Guardian:

The European Rosetta spacecraft will swoop into a closer orbit around its comet this week to help the mothership talk to its Philae lander, which emerged from a seven month hibernation at the weekend.

Scientists are set to change Rosetta’s orbit as soon as Tuesday to bring the spacecraft within 180 kilometres of the comet’s surface before the end of the week. The change in orbit should give Rosetta stronger and longer communication links with the lander, and allow scientists to send commands to the robot.

On Sunday night, the lander made contact again, but the signal was weaker and more fleeting, relaying only five more packets of data. After the second contact was made, scientists at the French Space Agency, CNES, declared the lander was now “completely awake”.

Mission scientists said there was only a slim chance of hearing from Philae on Tuesday night, but hope to hear from the lander again on Wednesday or Thursday.

Source : http://www.theguardian.com/science/...bit-in-bid-to-strengthen-philae-communication

They may be in a position to send commands to the lander next week. Interestingly the guys behind the Ptolemy instrument (the drill) are still under the impression that Philae is on its side so drilling may still be impossible, which would be a shame but we're fortunate to have got to this stage. Let's wait and see.

 

[fallout]

They managed to get in touch with Philae again:

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/0...n-with-philae-commands-executed-successfully/

Seems like the communications are very spotty. Still, good news nonetheless.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

nice. go science.

 

[Volimar]

http://imgur.com/gallery/HPUhu

 

[v0yce]

http://imgur.com/gallery/HPUhu

Travel well.

 

[waveuponwave]

Cool, they've found it!

One of the greatest space exploration stories of recent times finally has a happy ending. The Philae lander, thought lost after its botched touchdown on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November 2014, has been found.

Images taken last Friday by the orbiting Rosetta spacecraft reveal that its marooned companion is wedged against a dark cliff on the comet’s surface, just as mission managers at the European Space Agency suspected. The find comes just weeks before Rosetta is expected to make its own landing on the comet, ending the successful two-year mission.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2104594-found-philae-lander-finally-spotted-by-rosetta-on-comet-67p/

“With only a month left of the Rosetta mission, we are so happy to have finally imaged Philae, and to see it in such amazing detail,” said Cecilia Tubiana, who is part of Rosetta’s OSIRIS camera team and was the first person to spot the lander.
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Finding Philae doesn’t just provide a sense of closure for those who thought it would be lost forever, as knowing the landing site will help mission scientists fully understand the data gathered by the probe.

“This wonderful news means that we now have the missing ‘ground-truth’ information needed to put Philae’s three days of science into proper context, now that we know where that ground actually is,” said Rosetta project scientist Matt Taylor.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

Cool, they've found it!



https://www.newscientist.com/article/2104594-found-philae-lander-finally-spotted-by-rosetta-on-comet-67p/

There's Wally.

Awesome.

 

[How About No]