3 ms·
New command for Philae
- mholt 11y agoComet landing was November 2015? Is the mission really that recent? I thought I heard about it earlier.
- Sharlin 11y agoIt's a typo, the landing occurred in Nov 2014.
- mikeash 11y ago"During the night of 21 December 2015, a weak signal was received by the Rosetta spacecraft and examined by the mission team. Their analysis revealed that this was not a transmission from the lander." This seems like something that deserves a little more elaboration.
- pcarmichael 11y agoThat got me intrigued too. Found a bit more info on it in the comments of a reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3xtu76/comet_lander_philae_still_alive_ten_seconds_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3xtu76/comet_lander_...
- mikeash 11y agoThanks. This seems to be the key relevant quote from that thread: "The RSSI telemetry showed a single value sticking out of the noise, that's it." So, just something random. Computer glitch, cosmic ray whacking something, or similar. Not aliens, alas.