The space craft has been silent for a year – and we are now giving up hope
The little spacecraft that became a symbol for humanity’s hopefulness and ingenuity is going to be given up on because it has gone silent.
The Philae lander dropped onto a comet as part of the Rosetta mission, landing there at the end of 2014. It was a time of much celebration, with people delighting in the fact that humanity had somehow managed to land a space craft onto a comet many millions of miles away.
But now its carers have not heard from the hopeful lander for over a year, and we are going to give up attempting to try and talk to it. The European Space Agency announced in a blog post titled “Farewell, silent Philae” that starting on 27 July, the systems would start being powered down.
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