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May 07, 2015

New bid to contact Europe's comet probe
Paris (AFP) May 7, 2015
Europe will launch a new bid Friday to communicate with its comet lander Philae, hurtling towards the Sun some 360 million kilometres (224 million miles) from Earth, ground operators said. Philae's orbiting mothership Rosetta will reopen communications lines for 10 days to listen for any call from the slumbering robot, Paris-based Rosetta project manager Francis Rocard of France's CNES space agency told AFP on Thursday. Chances for contact improve daily as comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko draws c ... read more

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