The robot Philae, which had landed on the comet he tchouri are seven months before going to sleep, woke up in the night from Saturday to Sunday, June 14, said Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of CNES, the French space agency. “We were able to retrieve signals from him for two minutes and 40 seconds of data” , he said.
After traveling ten years in the company of Rosetta probe and traveled more than 6 billion kilometers, Philae had managed a historical first by landing 12 November 2014 on the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. But the landing of the robot-laboratory equipped with instruments to study the comet had not been easy. After several rebounds, he found himself between cliffs in a dim place.
The robot, equipped with solar panels, was out since November 15 due to insufficient sunlight to allow it to regain energy. His Twitter account, too, was back in service.
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