Spacecraft Operations Manager Sylvain Lodiot confirms loss of signal (LOS) and end of Rosetta operations at 13:19 CEST, 30 September 2016, via the voice loop in the Main Control Room at ESA’s space operations centre, Darmstadt, Germany.
Loss of signal confirmation
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Discussion: 17 comments
My Firefox browser won’t play Soundcloud content. Can the audio be provided as an MP3 file for download?
… one should/can try with Safari on a Mac, of course …
Rosetta is a great project!
@Doug,
If you’re running NoScript, then you’ll need to click on ‘allow all’, a couple of times. Played OK for me in the end.
It didn’t work for me either. Sometimes I just don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or if it’s the software – Such as this following discrepancy in maps that was doing my head in:
https://marcoparigi.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/anuket-sobek-border-confusion.html
I guess I’ll try again when I get to my laptop computer….
por un tema de videos, deja de usar firefox
Many thanks to all of you for this fantastic adventure.
And thus ended a 30 year golden era of cometary exploration: started by Giotto and today ending with the Rosetta spacecraft arriving on the comet. A brilliant achievement for European space. Those involved are true comet pioneers.
I’m sure this is a basic and naïve question but Why did Rosetta have to stop communication once it arrived onto the comet? Would the landing have destroyed Rosetta? Wouldn’t we want to maintain communication with Rosetta to learn about the comet, where it’s headed, its speed composition, temperature, etc?
Jasmin. Rosetta was not designed to withstand a landing and will undoubtedly have suffered damage. It has to be as light as possible, so it’s not physically very strong, it was designed to work in weightless conditions, and the big solar panels and high gain antenna (dish) will be damaged for sure.
But even if they weren’t, it could no longer point it’s antenna at earth, or keep its solar panels turned to the sun.
So the landing was always going to be ‘fatal’.
Fantastic adventure
Merci pour nous avoir tenus en haleine ces dernieres annees, a bientot sur une prochaine mission
A wondrous journey. Thanks Rosetta, Philae and ESA Team!
Well done!
Congratulations to the whole team!
Special thanks to flight dynamics team!
Good bye and sleep well everybody…
Congratulations to all involved in this mission. In terms of achievement, it’s up there with the Apollo program.
The audio plays just fine in my Firefox browser…
An outstanding mission with many more to come.
¡Gracias Rosetta!
Grazie di tutto a chi ha pensato, costruito e ideato Rosetta. Grazie a chi ne ha seguito le ricerche. Grazie a chi la fatta atterrare. Grazie!
Doug, At top right corner is a downward pointing arrow. Click on this to download a 1.3 megabyte WAV file called rosetta-eofm.wav