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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Jan 21 2014, 10:39 AM
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QUOTE (JohnVV @ Jan 21 2014, 02:02 AM)  someplace on this site there is a handy python script converts the PDS .tab file that is really a type of wavefront obj file "pdsVertexTAB2obj.py" that script changes the vertex numbers to a "v" and the face numbers to a "f" Thanks for the info. I can't find the .py script on the forum and even Google doesn't return any results... -------------------- _______________________
www.astrosurf.com/nunes |
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Jan 21 2014, 03:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 544 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Oklahoma Member No.: 557 |
QUOTE (xflare @ Jan 20 2014, 01:04 PM) 45 minutes of terror I'm vaguely reminded of the five minutes of terror back when Cassini transmitted the first channel A results from Huygens, although that one was over before most of the outside world even new anything was wrong. This time we all got to share the experience. Anyway, congratulations to ESA on getting Rosetta back, and here's hoping for a spectacularly successful mission. |
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Jan 21 2014, 04:02 PM
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Concerning the slight delay in signal acquisition:
QUOTE Acquisition of signal (AOS) yesterday came 18 minutes later than hoped for, but also well within expectations. The slight AOS delay was due to the on-board computer automatically rebooting itself at the beginning of the hibernation exit sequence; the team are looking into this (but Andrea stresses this is not problematic). Rosetta update from mission control |
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Jan 21 2014, 05:50 PM
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according to New Scientist there was another computer reboot in September 2012, during hibernation
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Feb 6 2014, 05:04 PM
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Apr 21 2014, 06:32 PM
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Did a little forum maintenance today, starting a new Rosetta subforum and a new thread for Rosetta with the first images of the comet after wakeup.
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