Mike Meynell
Mike Meynell
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

Errrmmm... OK... so now it turns out that Philae landed THREE times! The first at 15:33, after which it stayed off the ground for 113 minutes, and bo...

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

Doesn't look like we're going to get any more images or data today... but what a day it's been. Philae's batteries should last for 60-70 hours. If th...

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

Extraordinary... landed twice! Landed... bounced... rotated... landed again. Even more amazing than we first thought!!

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

Get another glass of wine Only in Europe... can't imagine NASA saying that!

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

Will ensure to give myself a good talking to tomorrow morning! Ditto... disciplinary action for certain. ;)

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

you all missed a great conference on data management Sorry I missed it ;) What a great day for science though. I'm happy to say that I've done preci...

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

Wow... first image taken seconds before landing: ... and is this the first image of the surface?:

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

First descent picture... stunning: 3km from the comet.

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

So here's what we know... Philae has landed successfully Neither the thruster nor the harpoons fired The ice screws on the lander's feet seem to h...

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

it could potentially rebound it off… Newton's third law... curses...

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

Harpoons definitely didn't fire.

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

Chris Lintott reporting that everyone he has spoken to believes that the ice screws are in. Very good news if true.

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

Science data is being received.

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

OK, so the thruster didn't fire. And the anchors haven't deployed either... so they can't confirm that they are secure on the comet. They may have t...

8 years ago
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RE: Rosetta - Philae landing on Comet 67P

I wonder if they did have it programmed to fire and if they did Everything was automated, so, if they could fire, they would have done. I suspect we ...

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