Scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Sunday made one last attempt to contact the Philae module, which have not received signals from the July 9, last year.
“Time is short and we want to exhaust all possibilities”, the project manager, Stephan Ulamec he said. The comet Churyumov-Geramisenko, on which is perched Philae, departs every day of the Sun , according to a DLR, conditions later this month will be so negative that the mission found its natural end.
By the time the temperature of the comet is placed below 51 degrees below zero, the module will have no more chance of working. On January 10 the DLR scientists and engineers sent a command to Philae in order to make a move that allows him to assume a more favorable position relative to the sun and shake off the dust covering its panels solar.
The worst that can happen, scientists say, is that the spacecraft can not receive the order. Currently there is no clarity about the state of Philae is because the probe does not send signals.
The latest data available are summer last year. The DLT team believes that one of the two receptors and one of the two emitters of Philae are damaged.
EFE
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