Rosetta spacecraft and space stuff

[losCHUNK]

This is the flight path -

[lvlshot]http://i.imgur.com/TUkKuhf.gif[/lvlshot]

http://sci.esa.int/where_is_rosetta/

Getting into orbit -

[lvlshot]http://i.imgur.com/s6bjPGC.gif[/lvlshot]

To take a selfie -

[lvlshot]http://i.space.com/images/i/000/042/053 ... -comet.jpg[/lvlshot]

Of this -

[lvlshot]http://i.space.com/images/i/000/041/387 ... osetta.jpg[/lvlshot]

So to sumarise, we launched a rocket 10 years ago carrying a probe that has travelled 4 billion miles to orbit an object smaller than 2.5 miles wide whilst travelling at 36,888 mph that it plans to land on somewhere between mars and jupiter.

Comet -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyu ... erasimenko

Spacecraft -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_%28spacecraft%29

[lvlshot]http://d3819ii77zvwic.cloudfront.net/wp ... shlPIz.gif[/lvlshot]

[xer0s]

Yeah, the gravity assist calculations are fucking insane...

[Whiskey 7]

Bookmarked
from an Aussie in New Zealand

[mrd]

Old news. But yeah... shit is pretty fucking insane. How far away is it now, 30km or something? Some of the photos coming out of that thing are pretty mind-bending

[vesp]

mindboggling
fucking science - HOW DOES IT WORK

Rosetta is cool... i remember watching the launch

[losCHUNK]

Found a landing site

[lvlshot]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77618000/jpg/_77618828_primary_j.jpg[/lvlshot]
[lvlshot]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77596000/png/_77596341_philae_s_primary_landing_site.png[/lvlshot]
Looks easy :P

[Tsakali]

+1 this thread

[losCHUNK]

I'll put these here too. Some old stories but might be new to some of you guys.

Curiosity photographed from space on Mars -

[lvlshot]http://i.imgur.com/CihMHqG.jpg[/lvlshot]

Snapping a selfie too -

[lvlshot]http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/cur ... 90-br2.jpg[/lvlshot]

Opportunity is still kicking it on Mars, 10 years later -

[lvlshot]http://images.techtimes.com/data/images ... -photo.png[/lvlshot]

The output level of electricity from the rover's solar arrays improved by around 10 percent last week as Martian winds partially removed dust from them.

A number of recent wind events and the increasing length of spring days have improved the solar panel's output to more than 70 percent in the last two months, JPL said.

^ Pretty important because dust on the panels has been slowly killing it for a few years now. Have read that its now the cleanest it's been since its 1st winter on Mars.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/5026/ ... shadow.htm

Charon orbitting Pluto n all, New Horizons is getting closer -

[lvlshot]http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/gallery/science ... t_3fps.gif[/lvlshot]

A little while back we were able to reboot a satellite that was the 1st comet chaser that is now being crowdfunded for further missions, which I thought was cool -

http://spacecollege.org/isee3/we-are-no ... craft.html

http://spacecollege.org/isee3/

[mrd]

Yeah, space is dope. We should be throwing money at this sort of shit. It's amazing what people can accomplish despite their relatively shit budgets.

[seremtan]

agreed, but there are too many whiners who think the money should be spent on tax cuts, welfare, and other gay shit

[losCHUNK]

We should have someone on Mars by now >:/

Should be a moon base too, where I can take a holiday. Instead we got beardy Branson sodding about with a hybrid plane and Elon Musk with a giant dildo.

[seremtan]

so many tank battles these days it's hard to keep up

[Transient]

YOU NEVER KNOW WE NEED THE TANKS JUST IN CASE BECAUSE RUSSIA

[losCHUNK]

We need the tanks for when we find aliens, noobs.

[Transient]

Aliens were behind Benghazi.

[Tsakali]

We should have someone on Mars by now >:/

Should be a moon base too, where I can take a holiday. Instead we got beardy Branson sodding about with a hybrid plane and Elon Musk with a giant dildo.

dildo is doing pretty good these days
http://www.networkworld.com/article/268 ... space.html

NASA is 3rd parting LOE taxis, so they can concentrate on getting people to Mars

also , america is back! No more of that plov shit

[mrd]

DOD: $500,000,000,000+/year
NASA: $18,000,000,000/year
ESA: $5,500,000,000/year

I think ESA wins the budget vs. gains race with the Rosetta craft, especially if they pull off a fucking rover landing. On a fucking comet. On their first try.

In other news, what the shit is DOD doing with all that money?

[Whiskey 7]

Aliens were behind Benghazi.

They're here already

[phantasmagoria]

So it lands tomorrow.

Shit starts happening around 9:30 GMT with images from the comet (if things go to plan) coming in any time after 18:00 onwards

schedule:
http://www.esa.int/esatv/Television

Live From ESOC Mission Control Room: Go / No Go #2/3

00:00 GMT/ 01:00 CET: Flight Dynamics Command for separation ready on ground
01:30 GMT/ 02:30 CET: Confirmation of Lander Readiness for Separation
Live from ESOC Mission Control Room / Cologne Lander Control Centre / Toulouse Science Operations and Navigation Centre

06:30-07:30 GMT / 07:30-08:30 CET: Final preparation manoeuvre and Go/No-Go #4 for lander separation

08:30-09:15 GMT / 09:30-10:15 CET: Lander separation scheduled at 09:03 GMT/10:03 CET

11:00-12:15 GMT / 12:00-13:15 CET: Science update and first pictures (NavCam) expected around 12:00 GMT / 13:00 CET

14:00-15:30 GMT/ 15:00-16:30 CET: Rosetta science / Last preparations and then await landing

15:45-16:15 GMT /16:45-17:15 CET: Landing expected at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET (+/- 15 mn)

17:00 GMT /18:00 CET earliest: Presentation of first panoramic (CIVA) image from comet

All points (ESOC MCR cams + prog / LCC/SONC) will be made available for broadcasters as isolated clean feed sources via a multiplexer at ESOC.

ESA TV will edit highlights after each step and put them in a dedicated folder and we will also post actual images files on ESA TV FTP news site:

ftp://tvdownload.esa.int/ Login: esa / Pasword: ftp4esa or via browser @ http://tvdownload.esa.int

An index of background footage/stockshot covering the overall Mission operations from launch until now is available on Server: tvdownloads.esa.int Directory : ROSETTA Stockshots Index Nov 2014

link to the feed:
http://new.livestream.com/ESA/cometlanding/

HOW EXCITING

[PhoeniX]

I'm glad I'm not a developer for NASA etc. The thought of screwing up some code on a very expensive piece of tech, potentially rendering it entirely useless scares me .

[Whiskey 7]

I have booking forward to the event for some time and yes it is exciting.

[Whiskey 7]

About 2 hours to go for a landing .. ... ...

[seremtan]

I'm glad I'm not a developer for NASA etc.

this is ESA, not NASA, but i'm sure they're glad too

[xer0s]

Landed!

[seremtan]

awesome

seems to have been a problem with the anchors not deploying, so it could still fall off