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Rosetta, Are You Better?
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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 957776" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>And one more desperate attempt</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Scientists initiated Friday a last-chance manoeuvre to contact a long-silent robot-lab dropped more than a year ago onto the surface of a comet hurtling through our solar system. </em></p><p><em>Scientists sent a command to the fridge-sized robot to spin up its flywheel, initially used to stabilise the probe when it landed.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The hope is that so doing will "shake dust from its solar panels and better align it with the Sun", explained technical project manager Koen Geurts.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>It is also possible, however, that the command—routed through the Rosetta spacecraft orbiting the comet—will never even reach Philae.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Several further attempts will be made, he added.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"It's an admittedly desperate move," Philippe Gaudon of the French National Space Agency told AFP. "It is very unlikely the robot will become functional again."</em></p><p></p><p><a href="http://phys.org/news/2016-01-last-chance-contact-space-robot-philae.html#nRlv" target="_blank">http://phys.org/news/2016-01-last-chance-contact-space-robot-philae.html#nRlv</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 957776, member: 175144"] And one more desperate attempt [I]Scientists initiated Friday a last-chance manoeuvre to contact a long-silent robot-lab dropped more than a year ago onto the surface of a comet hurtling through our solar system. Scientists sent a command to the fridge-sized robot to spin up its flywheel, initially used to stabilise the probe when it landed. The hope is that so doing will "shake dust from its solar panels and better align it with the Sun", explained technical project manager Koen Geurts. It is also possible, however, that the command—routed through the Rosetta spacecraft orbiting the comet—will never even reach Philae. Several further attempts will be made, he added. "It's an admittedly desperate move," Philippe Gaudon of the French National Space Agency told AFP. "It is very unlikely the robot will become functional again."[/I] [URL]http://phys.org/news/2016-01-last-chance-contact-space-robot-philae.html#nRlv[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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