Rosetta space mission - Philae probe due to land on comet on 12th Nov 2014

[brogdale]

Fridge size is inaccurate, but a gag nevertheless those images are great tho! ^^

Really?

1 × 1 × 0.8 m (3.3 × 3.3 × 2.6 ft) looks quite like a small fridge dimension to me.

 

[Chilli.s]

Great news!

 

[Disjecta Membra]

[DrOTE="brogdale, post: 13530166, member: 57590"]Really?

1 × 1 × 0.8 m (3.3 × 3.3 × 2.6 ft) looks quite like a small fridge dimension to me.[/QUOTE]

Er.... It's 3 kilometers wide, sorry can't link etc as I normally would for details.... But looking at just the pictures earlier, said that a " hill" was 27 metres high.. Hence my comment.

 

[2hats]

Getting closer... perhaps seconds before contact.

e2a: might be from an altitude of 8-10 metres.
2e2a: subsequently reported to be 40 seconds prior to first contact with the surface.

 

[wayward bob]

where are you getting your updates 2hats? i've had no sound on the live feed for ages...

 

[2hats]

where are you getting your updates 2hats? i've had no sound on the live feed for ages...

All over the place. Right now mainly from the French and German space agencies.

 

[tufty79]

We're living in the future when you can utter stuff like that and it makes sense

Is that why you just sent me a text that said nothing 'cept http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philaed?

 

[wayward bob]

All over the place. Right now mainly from the French and German space agencies.

that's what i call commitment

 

[wayward bob]

heh i haven't had this much fun since huygens

 

[2hats]

Quite a rubble pile it would seem:

 

[farmerbarleymow]

where are you getting your updates 2hats? i've had no sound on the live feed for ages...

He's sitting in the probe looking out the porthole.

 

[2hats]

You can see that that area in the monitor shot is right in the centre of the previous one up the page (roughly outlined in blue):

 

[StoneRoad]

just got home - been watching this .............

 

[2hats]

 

[2hats]

Not so sure about the provenance of this one yet... (definitely the underside of the lander but could be an engineering model, hmm):

e2a: definitely a model...

 

[StoneRoad]

was hoping to watch briefing at 1830GMT just been announced that it is postponed for about another 20minutes (I think)

 

[StoneRoad]

I bet they had that stashed - nice one, pleased to see it - but I wonder if they had something else ready, just in case, like. (/ bit of a cynic ..... especially as the thruster has failed)

 

[Supine]

Emergency meeting. What's going on?

 

[twentythreedom]

C4 news reporting an unspecified 'crisis'

 

[ddraig]

fallen off already!

 

[Fez909]

Is that why you just sent me a text that said nothing 'cept http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philaed?

sorry!

 

[2hats]

The landing area:

 

[2hats]

Lander status: after touchdown a clear signal with house keeping and science data was received. Harpoons did not fire. Radio link stability varying but science data was still received. Solar charging varying initially. But after two hours this stabilised. Science data throughout. The speculation is that the lander may have rebounded off the surface very slowly before finally settling.

 

[gentlegreen]

Presumably drilling unanchored would be a bad idea ?

 

[Limejuice]

The speculation is that the lander may have rebounded off the surface very slowly before finally settling.

Philae, Philae.

So good it landed twice.

 

[fishfinger]

Philae, Philae.

So good it landed twice.

It did a quick star jump!
<gets coat>

 

[Mr Moose]

I've been chatting to Casually Red and he agrees this is a triumph for Russian technology.

 

[weltweit]

So, the thruster and the harpoons.
It isn't often people have to make something that will sit for ten years and then work only the once!

 

[Fez909]

So, the thruster and the harpoons.
It isn't often people have to make something that will sit for ten years and then work only the once!

Humans are made every day

 

[2hats]

Almost a complete set of 'descent' images (mix of Orbiter NAVCAM/OSIRIS and lander ROLIS) - the last image was taken from about 10 metres above the surface:

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