First Attempt to Contact Hibernating Philae Lander Will Be March 12

Where is the Philae lander and will it wake up again? Those are the questions the team at the DLR Lander Control Center will be trying to answer starting this week. Thursday, March 12 provides the first possibility to receive a signal from Rosetta's lander, sitting somewhere on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. “It could be that the […]