The European robot Philae, perched on the comet “Churi” since last November, woke up on Saturday night, said Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), the French space agency.
Robot Philae ran out of battery, but managed to send information Comet
“We could receive his signals for two minutes and forty seconds of data” , she said Le Gall told AFP, confirming the information released by RTL. “Philae is alive!”.
“Hello, Earth! You hear me?” Tweeted the robot through its own, encouraged by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Philae, a laboratory robot with several instruments, woke up on Saturday at 22H28, European time (20h28 GMT), the ESA said.
On November 12 last, the space robot Philae, passed more than ten years of European space probe Rosetta ago, fell on the comet “Churi” .
His landing was pretty hectic. It bounced several times before settling between cliffs in an area with little light. He managed to operate for several tens of hours before sleep, because solar panels whose energy feeds were not sufficiently illuminated.
Finally, Philae got out of its slumber as the comet, escorted by Rosetta, was approaching towards the sun.
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