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#Rosetta impact site named Sais
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/10/03/rosetta-impact-site-named-sais

In case you missed it during our live coverage on Friday, #rosetta's impact site has been named Sais. Mission Manager Patrick Martin announced the name of the impact site after contact with the #comet's surface was confirmed and the mission declared complete. He said: “The Rosetta Stone was originally located in Sais, and we shall name the impact point as such so we can finally say that Rosetta has come home to Sais.” The mission was named after the Rosetta Stone, itself so named because it was found in a town called Rashid (Rosetta), having thought to have been moved there from a temple in a town called Sais. Rosetta’s last image of the comet surface is highlighted today as Space #Science Image of the Week.   

#Comet_67P #Images #Landing #Operations ##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

Mission manager hand-over
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/05/06/mission-manager-hand-over

After nearly two years as #Rosetta mission manager, Fred Jansen has handed the ropes over to colleague Patrick Martin. Here Fred recounts the highlights of his term, and introduces the new mission manager. Fred, we know from the last year that #rosetta is a complex mission and one that has achieved many firsts, but what were the greatest challenges for you in taking over the role of mission manager prior to Rosetta waking up from deep space hibernation? When taking over Rosetta one of the more urgent issues was the readiness of the science planning systems and the overall flow of information from the principal investigators to science planning to mission planning to spacecraft and back. This, along with a number of pending mission-wide decisions, posed some real challenges. What was the (...)

Rosetta - How to land on a comet

A good storytelling review/recapitulation of the whole Rosetta mission and history by mission manager Fred Jansen.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h27g5iT0tck

▻https://www.ted.com/talks/fred_jansen_how_to_land_on_a_comet?language=en

67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko