Station Rosetta adjust its orbit to contact the probe Philae – Lenta.ru

The automatic interplanetary station Rosetta adjust its orbit around comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the contact with the probe Philae. It is reported by The Guardian.

Scientists of the European Space Agency (ESA) in the period from 16 until 21 June planned to hold a Rosetta maneuvers that would be closer to the surface of the comet station up to 180 kilometers and provided a more stable and prolonged contact probe Philae.

Over the past few days, scientists were able to contact twice with the descent probe. The first time it happened in the night from 13 to 14 June. Contact was delayed, however, compared to the second was long. Another signal, in contrast to the first place in real time (including the time of his achievements of the Earth).

By June 14 the probe Philae first time since November 12, 2014 made contact with Earth. The first signal from him after seven months of silence ESA operations center in Darmstadt received June 13, 2015 at 23:38 Moscow time. Since the ESA has adopted about 300 data packets, while the whole unit has accumulated about eight thousand of these packages – that will get them to researchers.

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An analysis of the data showed that the temperature inside the probe is approximately minus 35 degrees, and it is in working order and fully awake . Currently, Rosetta, and the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko, together with the probe Philae are located at a distance of 215 million kilometers from the Sun and 305 million kilometers from Earth. Earlier, the ESA experts have reported that as we approach the probe Philae luminary accumulate enough energy and will be able to make.

Rosetta mission coordinated by ESA with the participation of its member-states, as well as NASA. The data obtained with the help needed to explain the process of evolution of the solar system and the emergence of water on Earth. Landing on the surface of the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko probe Philae made November 12, 2014. It was the first soft landing on the body of the Earth the comet nucleus. Later it became known that the Philae failed harpoons attached to the comet, and he was in the shadow of a huge rock, the shadow of which is limited by the access time of the probe to the sun and broke contact with him.