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July 13, 2015

Philae phones home for the eight time
Paris (AFP) July 10, 2015
Europe's robot lab Philae, zipping towards the Sun on a comet, has called home for the eighth time since waking up from hibernation last month, French space agency CNES said Friday. After a 15-day silence, Philae had a 20-minute conversation with ground control via its mother ship Rosetta, in orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, it said in a statement. This was "very encouraging news for the remainder of the Philae mission," the agency said. There had been no news from the washing m ... read more

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