Monday, November 17, 2014

Philae lander ‘goes to sleep’ after sending data to earth

A pioneering robotic spacecraft shut down today (Saturday 15th Nov) after radioing results of its first and probably last batch of scientific experiments from the surface of a comet.
Mission controllers put the European Space Agency (ESA) lander to sleep after power in its batteries dwindled to dangerous levels, but not before the craft transmitted a flood of science data to Earth.

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