Little Philae has woken

Kevin Farnell · Post by **Kevin Farnell** » 15 Jun 2015, 01:17

Our cutest little lander - Philae, has woken from it's slumbers on Comet 67P

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It tweeted "Hello Earth! Can you hear me?", after several months of inactivity.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33126885

Also, loved the cartoon on the BBC website -

Regards

Kevin

FlyTexas · Post by **FlyTexas** » 15 Jun 2015, 05:59

Fantastic news!!

Welcome back Philae.

Brian

Airspeed · Post by **Airspeed** » 15 Jun 2015, 12:24

Hopefully, it'll pick up enough charge while it's near the sun, to crawl out of the hole into whic

h it fell in during landing.

Kevin Farnell · Post by **Kevin Farnell** » 15 Jun 2015, 19:08

Unfortunately, I don't think it's mobile Mike.
It was designed to anchor itself to the ground on landing due to the very low gravity.
Pictures show it has no wheels.
I'm sure plenty of interesting information will come from it in the time it has in the sunlight.
Perhaps it will find these guys -

Kevin

Paul K · Post by **Paul K** » 15 Jun 2015, 19:51

Great news.

Classic British Flight Sim

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