Comet lander "Phil" successfully woke up on board the probe "Rosetta"

Habré has published articles and notes about interesting project: space probe "Rosetta", whose main task is to study the comet 67P / CG Churyumov-Gerasimenko. On board the "Rosetta" comet is landing module "Phil", which should land on the body of the comet.

In January this year, the probe "Rosetta" successfully woke up and was posted on the web video with footage from the control center of the probe, where you can see the happy participants in the project, will receive a signal from the probe:



Now "woke up" and lander, who "said" its normal functioning.

There was even an entry in the probe twitter, @ Philae2014, which tells of the awakening after 39 months of "sleep", and the normal end of the procedure to install the software necessary for the further implementation of the program of the probe.

Meeting interplanetary probe "Rosetta" with a comet will be held in August this year, and in November, on the surface of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko drops landing probe "Phil."

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/218023/