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January 11, 2016

Last-chance bid to contact space robot Philae
Paris (AFP) Jan 9, 2016
Scientists initiated Friday a last-chance manoeuvre to contact a long-silent robot-lab dropped more than a year ago onto the surface of a comet hurtling through our solar system. Part of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission, the Philae probe has yielded spectacular scientific results - and a few moments of high drama - since its near crash-landing onto comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November 2014. But it has been six months since mission control engineers at the German Aerospace Cen ... read more

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