Rosetta wake up call

[jmorgan]

Seems there will be a streamed waked up shout from good old Earth today.

http://www.universetoday.com/108254/wake-up-rosett...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/18/rosetta_co...
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Ro...


Thought this one had done its main task. Seems not.

Edit. 9:15 GMT, streamed from here.

http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/esalive
linked from here
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Ro...


Another edit. Lots of flannel at the moment. wake up sent 10:00 aprox. Nubbin, that is the receive around 17:30.

from the link

ESA said:

Rosetta’s computer is programmed to re-establish contact with Earth on 20 January, starting with an ‘alarm clock’ at 10:00 GMT. Immediately afterwards, the spacecraft’s startrackers will begin to warm up, taking around six hours. Rosetta will then send a signal to Earth to announce that it is awake. The first window of opportunity to receive a signal is between 17:30-18:30 GMT.

Edited by jmorgan on Monday 20th January 09:12

Edited by jmorgan on Monday 20th January 09:25

[jmorgan]

Running an interesting video at the moment on the design and build.

[thatdude]

ash73 said:

Fingers crossed all goes well. Good video here of Rosetta's gravity assists; imagine doing the maths!

Surely you just model it in kerbal space programme and keep re-loading until you gt the model right, and go with that

It's got me interested in that it is a seemingly nigh-on-inpossible endevour. But it's brave, oh so brave! I wish it every success.

[Karl911]

It's an amazing achievement to send 'Her' all that way, the calculations to carry out this mission are staggering. I never knew that 'She' had to sling shot round Mars to continue the journey.
Hope 'She' wakes up.

Live feed, Got it on in the workshop.
http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcast...

[jmorgan]

Gah! Want a feed of the spectrum...... waiting for the first chance for a call home.


Edit whoo hooo

Edited by jmorgan on Monday 20th January 18:18

[Justin Cyder]

It's up.

[andy_s]

[jmorgan]

andy_s said:

Even Bagpuss is impressed. Superb.

[qube_TA]

Was very cool watching the signal appear, reminded me of that scene in Contact!

[Eric Mc]

I can imagine it saying to itself -

"What's up?. Where am I?........BLOODY HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jmorgan]

Another thing to look forward to this year. Encounter in August and proposed landing (?) November. See what the guts of the solar system is made of. Somehow though this had finished at Lutetia. Launched 2004.

Wish they upped the sweep rate on that analyser.

[Eric Mc]

Some of the news reports were a bit disingenuous yesterday. The kept referring to Rosetta as the first close encounter and contact with a comet - which it is not.

[jmorgan]

Hayabusa at the very least. That was a few years ago.

Edit. Stardust as well, I signed up to help look for particles when the aero gel was returned. Never got around to it though.

Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 21st January 08:33

[Asterix]

It's very cool - I love the fact that the long game has been played.

They must be a very patient set of people. let's hope the next phase works.

[Eric Mc]

jmorgan said:

Hayabusa at the very least. That was a few years ago.

Edit. Stardust as well, I signed up to help look for particles when the aero gel was returned. Never got around to it though.

Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 21st January 08:33

And also Deep Impact.

Not to mention Giotto - which, back in 1986, was the first ever probe to meet up with a comet.

[Gargamel]

Indeed, heard an interview with one of the ESA people this morning, This mission has been around 20 years in the planning and execution so far.

The real action is in September this year when the probe goes.

Imagine being discovered to be the person who made a mistake that cocked the whole thing up, all that effort, all your peers knowing that it was your inability to convert from metric to imperial that caused the failure.

No wonder they were all whooping and cheering, must be sheer relief....

[jmorgan]

Boo!

Any life there?

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Ro...


Edit. Opps. Did not see Eric MC thread.

Edited by jmorgan on Wednesday 6th August 09:00