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Philae loses power, maybe for good




Rosetta is a robotic space probe built and launched by the European Space Agency to perform a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P) with both an orbiter, and lander module Philae. Rosetta was launched on 2 March 2004 at 7:17 GMT from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

After an improbable 10-year, 310-million-mile journey to become the first ever space vehicle to make a soft landing on a comet, the Philae probe may have ended its mission prematurely. Its batteries have run down, said the European Space Agency. "Philae has fallen into 'idle mode' for a potentially long silence. In this mode, all instruments and most systems on board are shut down," ESA said. This might not change. Philae was supposed to transmit data from Comet 67/P for nine months as it passed the sun, running on solar power, but it did not get its place in the sunlight that scientists had hoped for. The pictures sent back by Philae appear to indicate it landed in some sort of shadow, possibly the shadow of a cliff.





Shown here is a chart drawn for Rosetta’s launch. Among the most important solar arc progressions are those connected to the angles and the Sun. For the current period the solar arc Ascendant is conjunct Neptune which forms a quincunx aspect to Jupiter.

Jupiter-Neptune: Experiences of: feeling too passive,  sensitive, disillusioned, overwhelmed, hopeless or weak to do the things  that you/others think will make things better...having instances of  "false hope" or seeing the self-confidence undermined.

Neptune is conjunct the Admetus/Poseidon midpoint (within 0d2s of arc !)


Admetus is a TNP that relates to “blockages”  as well as "rocky terrain" while Poseidon refers to “light”. Might this be referring to weakness (Neptune) because the batteries cannot be powered by sunlight (Poseidon) owing to a blockage (Admetus)?

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