Philae landing on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G |
Philae landing on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G |
Sep 23 2014, 12:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1089 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Close to Meudon Observatory in France Member No.: 172 |
Now, it's time to open a new section devoted to the landing of the Philae lander itself on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G. Also to answer better the earlier post, http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=212943 and for your information, here is the quick summary (as a "pdf" file) of the events that are expected to occur during landing on the nucleus and after : it's the timeschedule on which we are working to set up our EPO event in Paris. Sequence_ATTERRISSAGE10_UMSF.pdf ( 263.81K ) Number of downloads: 4625 The landing itself should occur around November 11th. We'll keep you informed |
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Nov 7 2014, 05:45 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Anyone have any ideas if the ESA website will have live streaming coverage of the landing? Here in the U.S. all I can find on the vast array of cable channels I receive for same-day coverage is a one-hour special, "Landing on a Comet," running on the Science channel. I heard reports that NatGeoUK is running live coverage in the UK, but the U.S. NatGeo is not running anything on 11/12.
The Science channel program runs at 9 pm EST (8 pm CST, etc.). If the estimate of landing confirmation at about 1600 GMT on 11/12 is still accurate (as was posted a couple of weeks ago, after the landing site was selected), that puts this program about four hours after landing confirmation. I'd hope we would have a number of good images back by then, but I'd also really like to follow the landing event live. (As an aside, Science is using this opportunity to bring out a few new space-related programs, running the first of their "space weeks" since Curiosity landed a couple of years ago. We may get some nice eye candy from them in addition to same-day coverage of Philae's landing.) -the other Doug (With my shield, not yet upon it) -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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