Last chance to rescue the probe Philae – lagranepoca

. Dlr.de

The Philae probe of the Rosetta space mission made history in November 2014 when he first landed on a comet 200 million kilometers from Earth . But landing systems partially worked and bounced probe without having been able to recover from the impact. Now scientists have a last chance to save her, before the comet that has on its surface moves away from the Sun and the probe is lost forever.

On Tuesday begin the final phase of technical recovery work of the European Space Agency, with the support of all the scientific centers of the world, to try the device, spoiled on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, “resurrected” as there is no sign of life for several months, before the comet pass closest to the sun than it will in your journey. Now they must make technical set before moving away from the sun, the light is so poor and so low temperatures on the comet, the probe can no longer recover stabilizes.

With a temperature descending day and is already approaching 51 degrees below zero, when Philae can not operate in any way, technicians in Germany are trying everything imaginable seeking answers from the module.

“Time is running out and we want to try everything, but the silence of Philae does not bode well, “says Stephan Ulamec, project leader at statement that includes El Pais. Technicians believe that one of the receivers and transmitter have been definitively and other pairs of damaged devices does not work.

Now sent from the German Space Agency, orders for the steering wheel to activate stabilization, ensuring that the solar panels are still operating better align with the sun to allow battery charging and a possible answer.

Koen Geurts, technical manager of the mission, issued a lengthy statement where input key details of the operation in progress, but warned that no progress “by the end of January, things will get uncomfortable best to Philae”.

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