Philae landing on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G |
Philae landing on the nucleus of Comet 67P C-G |
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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. ![]() The landing itself should occur around November 11th. We'll keep you informed ![]() |
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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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Anyone have any ideas if the ESA website will have live streaming coverage of the landing? 24-hour live coverage from 1900 GMT on Nov 11 to 1900 GMT on Nov 12 planned, to be streamed over web and broadcast over Eutelsat. From three locations, ESOC Mission Control in Darmstadt, LCC (Lander Control Center) in Cologne and SONC in Toulouse. Highlights after each step will also be edited as downloadable content for other media to use. Overview see http://www.esa.int/esatv/Television MOD EDIT: Thanks for this link, Katodomo. I copied this post and put it in the Philae FAQ Thread. Urge everyone to look there first for questions, and of course if you come across a resource of interest please feel free to place it there; thanks! |
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