rosetta-graphic20150616PARIS: Europe’s robot lab Philae has made follow-up contact with Earth more than a day after sending home its first message in nearly seven months since landing on a comet, its ground operators said Monday.

The lander reestablished contact early Monday morning GMT, and is now “completely awake”, Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French CNES space agency told television station France 2.

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