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#Rosetta’s Earth ‘twin’ switched off
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/10/07/rosettas-earth-twin-switched-off

Just as the real #rosetta spacecraft ended its mission on the comet a week ago today, so this week Rosetta’s ’twin’, an engineering qualification model here on Earth, was also switched off. The replica Rosetta had been used in the past decade to test and validate software and procedures before being uploaded to space. Switch-off was done by Rosetta Spacecraft #Operations Manager Sylvain Lodiot on 6 Oct 2016, at ESOC. This Flickr set records the occasion: ▻https://www.flickr.com/photos/esa_events/sets/72157674885552235

#Testing/EQM ##CometLanding

From one comet #Landing to another: planning #Rosetta’s grand finale
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/11/12/from-one-comet-landing-to-another-planning-rosettas-grand-finale

As announced in June along with confirmation of the mission’s extension, #rosetta teams are planning to end the operational phase of the mission in a controlled impact of the orbiter on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at the end of September 2016. While the specific details of the trajectories and impact site are still under discussion, ESA’s Rosetta Spacecraft #Operations Manager Sylvain Lodiot, Project Scientist Matt Taylor, and mission manager Patrick Martin, share some background information on the planning of this dramatic mission finale. Why will the mission come to an end? Following perihelion in August, Comet 67P/C-G and Rosetta are now moving away from the Sun and back out towards the orbit of Jupiter. This creates a number of challenges: Reduced solar power As the (...)

#Instruments ##CometLanding #manoeuvre #timeline #trajectory

Join our Perihelion Hangout !
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/08/10/join-our-perihelion-hangout

Join us for a Google hangout with Rosetta mission experts to celebrate perihelion – the closest point to the Sun along the comet’s orbit. The hangout will be streamed live on 13 August at 13:00 GMT / 15:00 CEST – watch it here. The Hangout will be hosted by Emily Baldwin (ESA Space Science Editor) who will be joined by: Nico Altobelli - Acting Rosetta Project Scientist, ESAC Michael Küppers - Rosetta Science Operations Coordinator, ESAC Sylvain Lodiot - Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Manager, ESOC Armelle Hubault - Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Engineer, ESOC Barbara Cozzoni - Philae Lander Engineer, DLR Holger Sierks - OSIRIS Principal Investigator, MPS Joel Parker - Alice instrument Deputy-PI, SwRI Colin Snodgrass - Professional ground-based observing campaign coordinator, Open University (...)