The Philae probe still active and resets the signal with the ESA – RTVE

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The probe Philae from the European Space Agency (ESA), which is on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, still active and signal has reestablished the agency as confirmed on his Twitter account.

The space mission has been to be lost shortly after starting his experiments at the comet because it was expected that its batteries were exhausted this midnight as gets five hours less sunlight of schedule after a kilometer from the point where a decision had to have been perched on the landing scroll past.

Philae, which is in a dark area, probably in the ring outside of a crater, has a limitation of fuel and need to get sunlight into energy, so scientists have worked for the agency Friday redirect lander’s solar panels to make them gets more light.

rotation maneuver successfully performed

“Let’s see if you can get a little more sun @ Philae2014!” indicated a tweet ESA which reveals that the module was performing a maneuver ‘lifting and turning’ your landing in an attempt to redirect the device to its solar panels to access the . sunrays and thus feeding back their used batteries

Apparently and according to the twitter of the ESA, the operation would achieved its target to rotate 35 degrees : “Also my rotation was a success (35 degrees): a new comet appears from this angle, “the space agency tweeted

According to had said throughout this Friday responsible for the mission after warning of the danger of exhaustion. their batteries and that the data collected do not reach the earth, if the target data is received on the Friday night, was try slightly rotating the module to increase the chances of “re wake up and talk to us again. “

27 years of Mission

The Rosetta mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has completed a project that has taken 27 years of work and looking to find scientific process of planet formation and more specifically, of the Earth answers.

Over the ten years has lasted the trip to meet the 67P, Rosetta has several turns around the sun, has flown over the Earth three times (2005, 2007 and 2009), also Mars-operations to capture energy- and has found two asteroids 2008 and 2010.

For two and a half years went into hibernation because it did not receive enough sunlight to produce electricity, and he walked off the stage more lonely and cold trip .