Philae Wakes Up! |
Philae Wakes Up! |
Jun 14 2015, 11:05 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
Got the info from a Radio that CNES get a 2mn contact with Philae last nigth and 40 second of data.
Please take this info with due precautions waiting for confirmation before opening a new topic. http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/en-direct/a...-spatiales.html -------------------- |
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Jun 22 2015, 06:44 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 30 Joined: 22-July 11 Member No.: 6080 |
Interesting, if not entirely positive, article from Le Point (in French) apparently regarding conversations with Gaudon,
http://www.lepoint.fr/astronomie/mission-r...938939_1925.php Gist is it says there were two further contacts over the weekend on Saturday and Sunday, but none with uninterrupted communication windows longer than 2 minutes. They need at least 15 minute windows apparrently to upload commands to Philae. Says they'll try to get Rosetta down to 160km around Wednesday. |
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Jun 22 2015, 06:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1649 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Interesting they mention uncertainty in the orientation of Philae. I had thought they earlier stated they had a good sense of that. And the mosaic I had made, with the help of Mattias' sun vector also gives some potential information about orientation, with an estimated 80 degree tilt compared with the "local" surface. We can even see the CONSERT antenna in the mosaic. The specification of orientation is better though before the rotation maneuver, though we can get a sense of this by the shift in the ROLIS images before/after.
-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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