No. 129 - Mission Operations Update
During the reporting period, mission operations have been conducted with support of the ESA New Norcia (NNO) ground station.
| DOY | Date | Pass | Main Activity |
| 032 | 01/02/10 | NNO 2168 |
Monitoring pass |
| 033 | 02/02/10 | NNO 2169 |
Monitoring pass |
| 034 | 03/02/10 |
NNO 2170 |
Re-lubrication of reaction wheel B |
| 035 | 04/02/10 |
NNO 2171 |
ALICE and COSIMA software updates |
| 036 | 05/02/10 |
NNO 2172 |
ROSINA software update |
| 037 | 06/02/10 |
NNO 2173 |
Monitoring pass |
| 038 | 07/02/10 | NNO 2174 |
Monitoring pass |
| 040 | 09/02/10 | NNO 2176 |
OSIRIS shutter test |
| 041 | 10/02/10 |
NNO 2177 |
OSIRIS shutter test |
| 042 | 11/02/10 | NNO 2178 | End of reaction wheel B run-in phase |
| 043 | 12/02/10 | NNO 2179 |
Monitoring pass |
At the end of the reporting period (DoY 043) Rosetta was at 72.6 million km from Earth (0.48 AU) and the one-way signal travel time was 242 seconds. The distance to the Sun was 219 million km (1.46 AU).
Spacecraft
Payload
ALICE
The instrument is currently OFF. On DoY 035 software version 2.7 was copied in all EEPROM pages.
CONSERT
The instrument is currently OFF.
COSIMA
The instrument is currently OFF. On DoY 035 software version 15 was successfully uplinked.
GIADA
The instrument is currently OFF.
MIDAS
The instrument is currently OFF.
MIRO
The instrument is currently OFF.
OSIRIS
The instrument is currently OFF. On DoY 040 and 041 the shutter test was successfully conducted.
ROSINA
The instrument is currently OFF. On DoY 036 software version 7.4 was successfully uplinked.
RPC
The instrument is currently OFF.
RSI
The ultra-stable oscillator is ON/muted since DoY 032/2010.
VIRTIS
The instrument is currently OFF.
LANDER Philae
The instrument is currently OFF.
SREM
The instrument is ON with standard settings since DoY 032/2010.
Future Milestones
The Rosetta spacecraft is now configured in normal mode, in which it will nominally remain until the deep space hibernation entry in June 2011.
A test of the Philae lander's solar generator, with Sun exposure of the back side of the spacecraft, is planned for 24 February 2010 and a dynamics test of the Lutetia flyby is planned for 15 March 2010. Both tests are conditional to the behaviour of reaction wheel B, whose performance is being monitored following its re-lubrication.
Rosetta is cruising towards asteroid Lutetia. The encounter with the asteroid will take place in July 2010.
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