Philae Wakes Up! |
Philae Wakes Up! |
Jun 14 2015, 11:05 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2920 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Got the info from a Radio that CNES get a 2mn contact with Philae last nigth and 40 second of data.
Please take this info with due precautions waiting for confirmation before opening a new topic. http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/en-direct/a...-spatiales.html -------------------- |
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Jun 14 2015, 08:36 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190 |
Wow, this site still exists....and I somehow even remembered my password after I don't know how many years!
Anywhats, I heard a scientist interviewed on the BBC who said the first priority of the mission would be to drill another comet sample and analyze it!?! Is this REALLY the case? Obviously they need to do a lot of work waking individual instruments back up and transferring old accumulated data, but even then is it possible to repeat the sampling experiment at all? I was under the impression that the COSAC instrument exhausted its helium carrier gas for the GS/MS and maybe some other consumables during the first attempt in the initial battery powered 60hr science window. Can anyone inform further? |
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Jun 15 2015, 03:26 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 93 Joined: 21-January 13 Member No.: 6845 |
I was under the impression that the COSAC instrument exhausted its helium carrier gas for the GS/MS and maybe some other consumables during the first attempt in the initial battery powered 60hr science window. Can anyone inform further? COSAC has a very nice gas dosing system and it has not used much of its helium yet. So if there was no major problem during the very cold time on the comet it is likely to work again. With the active comet the COSAC and Ptolemy mass spectra will be a lot of fun to look at. There is no house keeping data from the instruments yet, so it is a little bit early to speculate which one will be the first to be switched on. For me the wonder is that Philae survived the 100°C below zero and is still working. Thanks for the support! One of the COSAC team. |
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