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March 11, 2015

Comet mission in bid to contact dormant Philae probe
Paris (AFP) March 11, 2015
Ground controllers will open a communications line Thursday with a robot lab perched on a comet zipping through space, hoping for signs it is alive, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Wednesday. The 100-kilogramme (220-pound) probe Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 12 after a 10-year trek piggybacking on its mother ship, the orbiter Rosetta. But the landing did not go smoothly. Philae bounced twice off the comet's hard surface before settling at an angle in the shado ... read more

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