No. 132 - 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 |
| 088 | 29/03/10 | NNO 2224 |
Monitoring pass |
| 096 | 06/04/10 | NNO 2232 |
MIRO patch OBCP validation |
| 120 | 12/04/10 |
NNO 2238 |
Monitoring pass |
| 104 | 14/04/10 |
NNO 2240 |
RSI PC12 |
| 106 | 16/04/10 |
NNO 2242 |
Monitoring pass |
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DOY = Day of year | |||
At the end of the reporting period (DOY 106) Rosetta was at 202.7 million km from Earth (1.35 AU) and the one-way signal travel time was 676 seconds. The distance to the Sun was 303.6 million km (2.024 AU).
Spacecraft
Payload
ALICE
The instrument is currently OFF.
CONSERT
The instrument is currently OFF.
COSIMA
The instrument is currently OFF.
GIADA
The instrument is currently OFF.
MIDAS
The instrument is currently OFF.
MIRO
The instrument is currently OFF. The instrument was activated on DOY 096 for a validation of the new OBCP applying a software patch.
OSIRIS
The instrument is currently OFF.
ROSINA
The instrument is currently OFF.
RPC
The instrument is currently OFF.
RSI
The ultra-stable oscillator is ON/muted since DOY 032/2010. The USO was unmuted for a short period of time on DOY 104.
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 last active payload check-out (PC12) will start during the next reporting period and will last for four weeks. Mission operations will be dedicated to the final tuning of the instruments in preparation for the flyby of asteroid Lutetia in July 2010 and for the deep space hibernation.
The navigation campaign for the Lutetia flyby will begin at the end of May 2010.
Rosetta continues cruising towards asteroid Lutetia. The Rosetta spacecraft is configured in normal mode, in which it will nominally remain until the deep space hibernation entry in June 2011.
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