File probe was able to send all the data and then entered a … – Público.pt

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

The probe File managed to send at the end of Friday night’s all scientific data collected in the nucleus of a comet, following the instructions of the scientists. The great fear was that he had not enough to do the scientific work requested and then to send the collected data to the spacecraft Rosetta , in orbit of the comet energy. But, after several mishaps and crashes, eventually things go well on the first landing ever accomplished in a comet.

                     

                         One of the things that the File could do was punch the ground comet and analyze these samples. After almost 57 hours sitting on a comet nucleus, where it arrived on 12 November, the File managed to complete most of their core mission. “It was a huge success, the entire team is thrilled,” said Stephan Ulamec, responsible for the team, said in a statement from the European Space Agency (ESA).

As of now, the probe entered a long and deep sleep, having spent all the energy I had in the scientific tasks and sent this precious information. The landing had a succession of unpredictable facts: the harpoons that should hold the probe to the ground did not work, as the propulsion system that would help in this complex operation, so she bounced twice and ended up in a hole where little sunlight reached . Scientists and engineers at ESA had to deal with the situation from this succession of events, trying to accomplish the mission on the surface of the comet.

As your panels to receive little solar energy, scientists ESA now consider very unlikely to be able to establish some contact with the File in the near future. The File is now a sleeping beauty resting on the lap of a comet, which is approaching the Sun and us.

The scientists were also able to send instructions to the probe so that it stood up a bit of soil (about four inches) and swirled around 35th in an attempt to put to receive more sunlight. This operation has had no effect for now, as soon as the File data sent his energy faded. Except that as the comet approaches the Sun, reaching the minimum distance on August 13 next year, maybe this move will bear fruit and the solar panels of spacecraft then able to get a little more light. And she again woke up.