Rosetta wake-up day - streaming of press briefings
15 January 2014
On 20 January 2014, ESA's comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft is set to wake up from 957 days in deep-space hibernation. A day-long event will be held at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, to mark this momentous occasion. Follow the programme online - details below.Follow the live transmissions
The press briefings during the day will be livestreamed via the main ESA website and via the ESA channel on livestream. .
Programme at ESOC
(all times in CET, programme subject to change)
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Introduction |
| 10:20-10:30 | Welcome address from ESA's Thomas Reiter, Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations |
| 10:30-10:40 | Alvaro Gimenez, ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, presents Rosetta in the Science Programme |
| 10:40-11:10 | Live reports from the Main Control Room: |
| - Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, speaks on Rosetta - a European success story | |
| - Matthew Taylor, ESA Rosetta Project Scientist, explains the scientific preparations and expectations | |
| - Paolo Ferri, Head of ESA’s Mission Operations, on 10 years of Rosetta operations | |
| - Andrea Accomazzo, ESA Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Manager - operational challenges of the mission | |
| - Mark McCaughrean, ESA Senior Scientific Advisor, on comets and the evolution of our Solar System | |
| 11:15-11:25 | Live from the ESOC Conference Centre |
| Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chair of the German Aerospace Centre and Chair of ESA Council, will speak on Germany's role in Rosetta, followed by a question and answer session | |
| Break | |
| Afternoon programme: Highlights, science achievements and operational challenges of the Rosetta mission – plus: live updates from Main Control Room | |
| 14:00-14:20 | Rosetta orbiter science: Holger Sierks, Principal Investigator of OSIRIS, and Joel Parker, Deputy Principal Investigator ALICE |
| 15:15-15:25 | Paolo Ferri: Mission operations update |
| 15:30-15:50 | Rosetta, comets and asteroids: Gerhard Drolshagen, Gerhard Schwehm, both ESA scientists, together with Norbert Peiler, Airbus Defence and Space |
| 16:45-16:50 | Andrea Accomazzo: Mission operations update |
| 17:00-17:20 | Rosetta's lander, Philae: Jean Pierre Biebring, Principal Investigator of CIVA/ROLIS, Wlodek Kofman, Principal Investigator CONSERT, and Stephan Ulamec, DLR's Philae Lander Manager |
| End of scheduled programme | |
| 18:30-19:30 | Waiting for signal receipt - live programming and updates from ESOC |
Last Update: 23 September 2021
