Update from Stephan Ulamec, Lander manager at DLR:
“We’ve got data – all the house-keeping data and data from COSAC – although we’ve no idea what’s in there yet. The drill (SD2) moved up and down, but again, we don’t yet know what we have.”
“We did the lift and turn; the landing gear lifted by about 4 cm, and we turned about 35 degrees.
“The carousel of Ptolemy was also turned and we are running Ptolemy for a concentrated ‘sniff’.”
Instrument reminder:
COSAC: The COmetary SAmpling and Composition experiment (detecting and identifying complex organic molecules)
PTOLEMY: an evolved gas analyser, which obtains accurate measurements of isotopic ratios of light elements, such as hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen.
SD2: Sampling, drilling and distribution subsystem (drilling up to about 23 cm depth and delivering material to onboard instruments for analysis)
Philae’s instruments. Credits: ESA/ATG medialab
Discussion: 16 comments
The progress you guys are making is nothing short of awesome. Good decision to be bold and get what you can. Let’s hope the drilling and maneuvering pays off. My fingers are crossed. 🙂
What a thrill !
Even if the lander does die tonight the mission has been a fantastic success. Well done to all involved over the last decade or so. Looking forward to the results and conclusions. Please keep the Blog going.
Stuart R Bacup Lancashire.UK.
My Fingers are crossed too ! Hope you get all the data you Need. This is better than a Science Fiction – It is Reality. 🙂
Thank you for this amazing adventure! Keep on going!
Hope Philae will receive enough power during the next weeks to work and talk again… So much done, and we still hope for much more… 😉
Still shocked by the amazing achievement you are making these days… And how much brain effort has to be given from all you working on this ‘project of the century’…
Being involved in systems to keep divers talking and living in the most inhospitable place in the universe, 300m under the north Sea, I really appreciate the complexities of what you guys have to do, add the huge time delays, low data rates and just generally not knowing what’s going on in think an amazing job has been done, is being done and will be done on Rosetta II which there surely must be.
https://www.space.com/images/i/000/043/697/i02/philae-bouncy-comet-landing-141113b-02.jpg?1415918004
in relation to the sun there’s no indication as to the comets rotation as yet, will the sun shine more on the landing spot as it approaches the inner system ?
https://sci.esa.int/where_is_rosetta/
click rosetta today and rotate to preference for an indication where it will be in july 2015
| … there’s no indication as to the comets rotation as yet,
| will the sun shine more on the landing spot as
| it approaches the inner system ?
Keep in mind that the comets dznamic behaviour is good
for surprise. For instance, during the last few years its
rotation period shortened by about 20 minutes.
Ingo.
The radiation from the sun will increase a factor 6 to about 870 W/m2 and this might very well wake up Philae again.
Ofcourse some events can change the situation in any direction long before as tidal effects and outgassing might influence the comets properties. Hope for the best and we might get the lander back next year. By then if ESA do what they are supposed to do and do it properly, a lot of data can be recovered as the landers mission can continue for a long time.
عمل رائع .. كل الشكر والتقدير للاشخاص الذين شاركوا في نجاح هذا المشروع ، رغم الصعوبات التي تواجهكم الان إلا انه عامل ناجح في رأيي إلي الان ، فخور جدا كون اسم المركبة نسبة لحجر رشيد واسم الانسان الآلي نسبة لجزيرة فيلة ، انا مصري وفخور بما حققتم.. تحياتنا لكم وشكرا علي مجهودكم
So nice to see some feedback from Egypt here, where the names of Rosetta, Philae and Agilkia all originate from. Here’s a quick Google translation of the Arabic posting above:
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Wonderful .. All thanks and appreciation to the people who participated in the success of this project, despite the difficulties that confront you now, but he was a successful factor in my opinion, to date, very proud of the fact that the vehicle the name of the proportion of the Rosetta Stone and the name of the robot proportion of the island of Philae, I am an Egyptian and proud of what you have achieved. . Greetings to you and thank you for your effort
Keep on fighting! Try, to get something
out of almost nothing.
Always keep in mind how the Japanese were
able to reach a successfull end in a problemshadowed
Hayabuya mission.
Ingo.
C’est magnifique. Nous restons accroché au réveil de Philae. Nous remercions toute l’équipe de l ESA pour cet extraordinaire challenge en direction de l humanité qui ne cesse d’évoluer vers le meilleur.
I’m a tech expert and I know so much about space IT’S A THRILL.
IT’S A THRILL