organization:lander control centre

#Rosetta and #Philae in contact again
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/06/19/rosetta-and-philae-in-contact-again

ESA and its #rosetta mission partners have confirmed that another communication link has been made between Rosetta and #philae today. The signal was transmitted from Rosetta to ESA’s space #Operations centre in Darmstadt and received at 15:37 CEST on 19 June, and confirmed by the Lander Control Centre at the German Space Centre, DLR. A second signal was received at 15:54 CEST. The downlink was stable; the two contacts received by Rosetta lasted two minutes each. Both delivered numerous packets of lander housekeeping and status data, 185 in total, which are still being analysed at the time of this writing. No science data were anticipated or received. “We are very happy to have received signals from the lander again, and we are all working hard towards establishing a robust link between (...)

#Comet_67P

Where is #Philae? When will it wake up?
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/01/30/where-is-philae-when-will-it-wake-up

These are the two most popular questions currently being asked of the mission – especially on our social media channels – and ones that we will try to answer in this post, including inputs from the OSIRIS team, and from the Lander Control Centre at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Where is #philae? Ever since Philae touched down on #Comet_67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for the final time on 12 November – it is thought to have come into contact with the #comet’s surface a total of four times including the final #Landing – the search has been on to identify it in images. While the CONSERT instrument has helped to narrow down a 350 x 30 m ‘landing strip’ on Comet 67P/C-G’s smaller lobe, a dedicated search in OSIRIS images has so far not been able to confirm the little lander’s final location. Philae’s (...)

#Instruments #Rosetta ##CometLanding #rosetta #trajectory #wake-up