Rosetta flyby of Asteroid Steins, 5th September 2008 Options

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Correction Emily;

a single-image version of Your SUPERB scale montage

[jasedm]

I second that sentiment - nice job Emily. It's very useful to see these bodies at the same scale - it underlines the point that they really are all unique worlds in their own right.
The image reminds me of another similar, excellent montage put together by Exploitcorporations of the smaller Saturnian moons and posted here
I can't wait to see how Steins (and later, Lutetia Ceres and Vesta) fit into the mix.
Great times!

[peter59]

• The closest approach to Steins is due to take place on 5 September at 20:58 CEST (Central European Summer Time).
• First ground contact with the spacecraft and announcement of successful fly-by will take place at 22:23 CEST.
• The first data and images collected by Rosetta will be sent to Earth throughout the night of 5 to 6 September and will undergo preliminary processing in the morning of 6 September.
• First images and results will be available for presentation to the media during a press conference which will be held at ESOC the following day, Saturday 6 September at 12:00 CEST.

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Rosetta blog:
http://webservices.esa.int/blog/blog/5/

[djellison]

Ahh - good stuff - I thought the last Earth flyby was a nice job by the blog team.

[stewjack]

ESA Spacecraft Operations News

Timeline of nominal fly-by events
Note: All event times are stated in ground time, CEST.

Time Event
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6 September
12:00 Live streaming of Rosetta Steins fly-by press conference from the European Space Operations Centre begins
13:00 Images from fly-by published on ESA web
15:00 End of press conference streaming
16:01 End of reception of first set of science data

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Does anyone have the link to this and maybe also the offset of CEST from GMT/UTC?

Jack

[peter59]

Does anyone have the link to this and maybe also the offset of CEST from GMT/UTC?

CET - Central European Time
CEST - Central European Summer Time

Standard Time = GMT+1
Summer Time = GMT+2

[stewjack]

This Coverage of Rosetta Steins fly-by will probably be to early for me but if anyone else is interested here is the information. -

Sat, Sep 06, 2008 | 04:00 - 11:20 GMT | 06:00 - 13:20 CET| 05:00 - 12:20 BST
WEB Page
Coverage of Rosetta Steins fly-by.
ESA TV Live

The feed at 04:00 GMT will feature key moments of this exceptional flyby including the very first reactions of spacecraft controllers and scientists at ESA's Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, as the very first data and pictures arrive throughout the night between 5 and 6 September.

An additional TV feed may be made at 08:00 GMT on 6 September - please watch for announcements.

The first batch of processed images and preliminary results will be presented at a press conference taking place at ESOC starting at 10:00 GMT / 12:00 CEST on 6 September (available through web and TV streaming). David Southwood, ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, Gaele Winters, ESA Director of Operations and Infrastructure, and the key scientists and experts for the Rosetta mission, will provide the first insights into the outcome of this historic fly-by and link them to the bigger picture of space debris monitoring at ESA.

Webcast - http://www.esa.int/rosetta.

Jack

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

For the Press conference, also:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMW4V0SAKF_0.html

[dmuller]

Closest approach now just over 1 hr 15 minutes away. Seems that the C/A time has changed to 20:38:14 SCET/CEST which is about 30 secs after what I have in my simulation (too late to change now). Happy blogging at http://webservices.esa.int/blog/blog/5/

EDIT: Nice to see an increased traffic on the realtime simulation. Shows there is a good interest in this mission. Now let's see whether the Rosetta@Steins peak exceeds the Cassini@Enceladus peak from last month.

[ElkGroveDan]

We just had a quick chat with Spacecraft Operations Manager (SOM) Andrea Accomazzo here in the Rosetta DCR. He says everything is looking nominal, and some of the final fly-by commands are being uploaded now. -- Daniel

COMMAND 0001: "remove lens cap "

[climber]

Unnecessary full inline quote removed - mod.

The fly- by is occuring in another 22 minutes or so and my understanding is that press conf etc will be in another 3h30 minutes approx.
Either you're wrong or I am regarding your time line
Thank you to confirm or not my take

[imipak]

Climber - if stewjack's got it wrong then so have ESA; that info is straight from their website.

[climber]

Climber - if stewjack's got it wrong then so have ESA; that info is straight from their website.

Edited : I'm still not sure what time I'll have to be up tomorrow morning! Good night anyway...

[tedstryk]

So, no images yet. I take it ESA is hiding behind the old "the flyby hasn't happened yet, so there are no closeup images yet" excuse. I'm not buying....

Sorry Ustrax, I had to do that just for you