ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
ESA Rosetta, news, updates and discussion |
Apr 15 2005, 08:20 AM
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Well Rosetta isn't going to get to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Chury) till 2014, but it's not to early to set up a thread. There are a bunch of earth fly-bys, a Mars encounter at 200km in 2007 and a few asteriod passes. Not to mention the mission to land on the comet itself.
Only another nine and a half years to go. |
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Apr 15 2005, 08:02 PM
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Wow, i did not know that there will be a Mars Flyby.
Interesting... |
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Apr 15 2005, 11:16 PM
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Also, I believe they will be observing Comet Tempel 1 during the Deep Impact encounter.
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Apr 16 2005, 02:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
QUOTE (spaceffm @ Apr 15 2005, 03:02 PM) Rosetta will be able to add to the information on Mars methane/formaldehyde, according to this abstract (pdf file). http://www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU05/04196/EGU05-J-04196.pdf The Mars flyby of Rosetta: an opportunity for atmospheric sounding "It will be able to search for other minor species (CH4, H2CO...) and to study possible local variations..." |
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Apr 17 2005, 09:43 AM
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Here is a nice self-portrait of the back of one of rosetta's solar pannels taken by one of the 6 micro cameras on the Philae lander. Looks like the pictures of the surface from the lander are gonna be sweet.
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Apr 17 2005, 01:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
For those that understand German this site has lots of info about the Rosetta mission:
http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/rosetta.html http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/philae.html -------------------- PDP, VAX and Alpha fanatic ; HP-Compaq is the Satan! ; Let us pray daily while facing Maynard! ; Life starts at 150 km/h ;
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Apr 20 2005, 02:39 AM
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A few asteroid passes!
Great news. Wonder which ones??? QUOTE (paxdan @ Apr 15 2005, 03:20 AM) Well Rosetta isn't going to get to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Chury) till 2014, but it's not to early to set up a thread. There are a bunch of earth fly-bys, a Mars encounter at 200km in 2007 and a few asteriod passes. Not to mention the mission to land on the comet itself.
Only another nine and a half years to go. |
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Apr 21 2005, 08:41 AM
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During the first earth flyby by Rosetta which took place on the 4th of March, ESA ran a competition to find the best ground based images of the spacecraft during closest approach. The winners were announced on Monday. A gallery of all images taken of the spacecraft is available here.
I remember reading that due to the large size of rosetta's solar panels there was the hope that the shape of the spacecraft migh be resolvable, alas, only one submitter claims to have resolved some structure. Rosetta meanwhile took some excellent photos of the earth and moon during the encounter |
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Apr 21 2005, 05:40 PM
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QUOTE (paxdan @ Apr 17 2005, 09:43 AM) Here is a nice self-portrait of the back of one of rosetta's solar pannels taken by one of the 6 micro cameras on the Philae lander. Looks like the pictures of the surface from the lander are gonna be sweet. OMG it's full of stars ... -------------------- |
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Apr 22 2005, 12:12 AM
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QUOTE (Decepticon @ Apr 20 2005, 03:39 AM) This website gives details of two asteriod flybys: 5 sept 2008 - flyby at asteroid 2867 Steins 10 july 2010 - flyby at asteroid 21 Lutetia NOTE: I've updated this post to include the hyperlinks given in the article for the asteroid biogs. This post has been edited by paxdan: Apr 22 2005, 12:26 AM |
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Apr 22 2005, 04:20 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Chicago, IL Member No.: 91 |
And I thought the seven years that Cassini took to get to Saturn was long. I don't know what I will doing 9 and a half years from now. It is definitely going to be worth the wait. The pictures look really sharp!
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May 3 2005, 10:22 PM
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http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMT4V2IU7E_0.html
ESA’s comet chaser mission Rosetta took these infrared and visible images of Earth and the Moon, during the Earth fly-by of 4/5 March 2005 while on its way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. |
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May 6 2005, 02:42 PM
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A repeat of above data from TPS. http://planetary.org/news/2005/rosetta_ear...mages_0506.html
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Jun 22 2005, 08:05 PM
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Good news on the problem with the sticky thermal door covering the OSIRIS cameras -- a problem which ESA had indicated in two status reports starting in January, but about which I simply could not pry any information from them. (Even Mike A'Hearn -- who is a co-investigator! -- had only been told that it was "some kind of stickiness".) ESA's close-mouthedness is a serious pain in the ass.
However, judging from the latest status report, they seem to have finally developed a software fix for it (after one unsuccessful earlier try). http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=37534 : "On 31 May a test of the OSIRIS door mechanism was carried out with the presence of the PI team at ESOC. The purpose of this test was to characterise the behaviour of the flight model, compare it with the test results on the ground models and finalise the new software routines for the control of the door to be uplinked on 14 June. The test was successful and the OSIRIS team has already delivered the new software. ESOC is preparing for next week's uplink and verification operations." |
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Jun 22 2005, 08:06 PM
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Postscript: they do plan to use the OSIRIS cameras -- along with all of Rosetta's other remote-sensing instruments -- to observe Tempel 1 during the Deep Impact collision.
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