Space for the day

The BBC has an article about Philae:

The Philae comet lander (photo) has fallen silent, according to scientists working on the European Rosetta mission. The refrigerator-sized spacecraft, which landed on Comet 67P in November of 2014, last made contact on 9 July 2015, but efforts to contact it again since then have failed, scientists have said.
The first craft to perform a soft landing on a comet, Philae initially bounced, landing in a position too dark for sunlight to reach its solar panels.
It woke up in June of 2015 as the comet moved closer to the sun. But the latest data suggests something, perhaps gas emission from the comet's surface, may have moved it again. "The profile of how strongly the sun is falling on which panels has changed from June to July, and this does not seem to be explained by the course of the seasons on the comet alone," said Stephan Ulamec, Philae project manager at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Philae's antenna may have been obstructed, and one of its transmitters appears to have stopped working, Rosetta team members said.

Rico says he's sorry to see it go...