Philae is awake!
15 June 2015
Rosetta's lander Philae has woken up on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasmenko after seven months in hibernation!
Signals from Philae were received at ESA's Operations Centre on the evening of 13 June. More than 300 data packets have already been analysed by the teams at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
For 85 seconds Philae "spoke" with its team on ground, via Rosetta, in the first contact since going into hibernation in November last year.
Now the scientists are waiting for the next contact. There are still more than 8000 data packets in Philae’s mass memory which will give the DLR team information on what happened to the lander in the past few days on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Stay tuned for more!
