Tag: comet landing

ESA Euronews: Rosetta heads for glorious crash-landing

In just a few days’ time ESA’s Rosetta mission is going to come to a close in a most extraordinary fashion, because the spacecraft is going to slowly, and deliberately crash-land into the comet that it has been orbiting for the past two years.

Euronews is with the team as they prepare for this dramatic finale.

This video is available in the following languages:
English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_7u71Lu3S4
German https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7SYFWzUp8
French https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXTn3mDWH-Y
Spanish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjenXVAFTTw
Italian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32nyF3IkzU8
Portuguese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_CTvNZfXxc
Greek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdUgVQibZWo
Hungarian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3OTRPHckSM

September 23, 2016
ESA Euronews: El final programado de Rosetta

En pocos días, la misión Rosetta de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA) tocará a su fin. Y lo hará de la forma más extraordinaria, porque la nave espacial irá a chocar, lenta y deliberadamente, contra el cometa alrededor del cual ha estado orbitando durante los últimos dos años. Nos reunimos con el equipo mientras preparan este dramático final.

September 23, 2016
ESA Euronews: Rosetta se prépare au choc fatal sur la comète Tchouri

Le 30 septembre prochain, la sonde Rosetta s’écrasera lentement et délibérément sur la comète autour de laquelle elle orbite depuis deux ans. Or elle n’a pas été conçue pour cela. L’issue sera fatale. Mais avant cette dernière manoeuvre, les scientifiques ont prévu d’effectuer des relevés inédits à l’approche de “Tchouri”.

September 23, 2016
Reconstructing Philae’s flight

Data from both the Philae lander and Rosetta orbiter experiments, as well as simulation results based on Philae’s mechanical design have been used to reconstruct the lander’s attitude and motion during its descent and touchdowns on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014.

The new animation presented today, one year after Philae touched down on the comet, focuses on Philae’s dramatic two-hour flight from Agilkia to Abydos.

More details in the Rosetta blog: http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/11/12/reconstructing-philaes-flight-across-the-comet/

Credits: The video was prepared with inputs from the ROMAP, RPC-MAG, OSIRIS, ROLIS, CIVA CONSERT, SESAME and MUPUS instrument teams as well as from the Lander Control Centre at DLR and Science Operation and Navigation Center at CNES.

November 12, 2015
Demonstrating Rosetta’s Philae lander on the Space Station

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst performs a demonstration of how ESA’s Rosetta mission will attempt to put a lander, called ‘Philae’ on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

Alexander narrates the story of the Rosetta mission and performs a demonstration that visualises the difficulties of landing on an object that has little gravitational pull. Using the weightless environment of the Space Station, Alexander attempts to land ‘Philae’ (an ear plug) onto the surface of the ‘comet’ (an inactive SPHERES robot) with increasing levels of difficulty: a rotating comet that is not moving to one that is both rotating and moving.

This video is one of the six experiments and demonstrations in the Flying Classroom, Alexander will use small items to demonstrate several principles of physics in microgravity to students aged 10–17 years.

The Rosetta mission’s lander, Philae, will be deployed on 12 November at 08:35 GMT/09:35 CET from a distance of 22.5 km from the centre of the comet. It will land about seven hours later, with confirmation expected to arrive at Earth at around 16:00 GMT/17:00 CET.

More about the Rosetta mission: http://rosetta.esa.int
More about ESA Education: http://www.esa.int/education

Credit: ESA

November 7, 2014