After the historic landing on comet 67P/C-G, which, incidentally, is not entirely trouble-free has expired, lander Philae, the first photos of the komeetlandschap to ESA sent. Because Philae his harpoons not firing, there may not be in the surface to be drilled.
According to the data that ESA has received from an investigative tool in the Philae lander to make the landing on comet 67P/C-G is not one-time succeeded: the first soft landing would be Wednesday afternoon at 16:33 hours have occurred, after which the lander probably bounced and then again twice to land. At 18:33, the Philae final landing on the comet, a kilometre from the original landing site. It seems to be a very rocky piece, with only 90 minutes of sunlight per 12 hours. This would can cause problems for the charging of the batteries of the probe and thus the length of the mission. The antenna of Philae are well on the Rosetta focused.
The harpoons of the lander appear shortly after the landing not to have been activated. These were intended to be the ‘kometenjager’ to anchor to the komeetoppervlak. Ruimtevaartdeskundige Govert Schilling says that this may mean that the lander can’t drill on 67P/C-G.
In addition to the potential problems with the embedding seems not all of the electronics in Philae to function well. According to the French organization, CNES, the solar cells are damaged and send eight of the ten instruments data, writes the chief editor of Spacenews. However, the probe of the first photos from the komeetoppervlak forwarded. Therefore it is necessary patience is needed: the signals, which with the speed of light through space travel, bridging the distance of nearly half a billion miles in about 28 minutes. In addition, the throughput is very low: this is 28kbit/s.
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