In case you were wondering whatever happened to the Rosetta spacecraft and its probe Philae that crash-landed on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko back in November and then went dead: the probe has awakened. As of yesterday, the little lost lander was sending signals again back to Earth.
“Philae is doing very well,” project manager Stephan Ulamec said.
Here on a quiet, cloudy morning in New Orleans, this news cheers me.
