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Report for Period 5 June to 20 June 2010This report covers two weeks of Rosetta mission operations. The navigation campaign for the upcoming flyby of asteroid Lutetia on 10 July 2010 is ongoing. Radiometric data and optical images are regularly processed to assess the spacecraft's trajectory relative to that of the asteroid. Several slots are...
Published: 24 June 2010
Report for Period 22 May to 4 June 2010This report covers two weeks of Rosetta mission operations. The navigation campaign for the upcoming flyby of asteroid Lutetia on 10 July 2010 is well underway. In addition to the ESA New Norcia ground station, the spacecraft as of now is also regularly tracked by NASA DSN ground stations. Rosetta's...
Published: 9 June 2010
Report for Period 8 May to 21 May 2010This report covers two weeks of Rosetta mission operations. The final activities of the active payload check-out 12 (PC12) were successfully conducted according to plan. The last spacecraft activities in preparation of the Lutetia flyby campaign were also completed.
Published: 26 May 2010
Report for Period 1 May to 7 May 2010The reporting period covers the third week of the active payload check-out 12 (PC12) for Rosetta. All the planned PC12 activities were successfully conducted according to plan.
Published: 12 May 2010
Report for Period 24 April to 30 April 2010The reporting period covers the second week of the active payload check-out 12 (PC12) for Rosetta. All the planned PC12 activities were successfully conducted according to plan.
Published: 5 May 2010
Report for Period 17 April to 23 April 2010The reporting period covers one week of Rosetta mission operations and saw the start of the spacecraft check-out 11 and the active payload check-out 12 (PC12).
Published: 28 April 2010
Report for Period 27 March to 16 April 2010The reporting period covers three weeks of Rosetta mission operations. Few instrument tests were performed in preparation of the active payload check-out (PC12), which will start in the next reporting period. The MIRO instrument was activated on 6 April for a validation of new on-board control...
Published: 21 April 2010
Report for Period 27 February to 26 March 2010The reporting period covers four weeks of Rosetta mission operations. These were dedicated to further payload maintenance activities and a rehearsal of the flyby of asteroid Lutetia. The rehearsal of the asteroid flyby dynamics went very smoothly and gives good confidence in the spacecraft behaviour...
Published: 6 April 2010
Report for Period 13 February to 26 February 2010The reporting period covers two weeks of Rosetta mission operations. This period was dedicated to further payload maintenance activities in preparation of the upcoming mission phases and the 12th payload check-out, which is planned for April-May 2010. The RTOF, the time of flight sensor, one of...
Published: 3 March 2010
Report for Period 30 January to 12 February 2010After the successful test of the deep space hibernation mode (DSHM), which was covered in the previous reporting period, spacecraft maintenance activities have resumed as planned. Reaction wheel B was re-lubricated on DoY 034, with a run-in phase that lasted till DoY 042. It was subsequently added...
Published: 18 February 2010
Report for Period 16 January to 29 January 2010The reporting period covers two weeks, which were fully dedicated to the test of the deep space hibernation mode (DSHM) for Rosetta. This is the hibernation mode in which the spacecraft will operate from June 2011 till January 2014 on its last long stretch of passive cruise to comet...
Published: 3 February 2010
Report for Period 26 December 2009 to 15 January 2010The reporting period covers three weeks of operations for the Rosetta spacecraft. Early in the reporting period on DoY 001 the spacecraft experienced a safe mode. This was triggered by a problem on one of the subsystems' Remote Terminal Units (RTUs). The spacecraft was fully recovered and the...
Published: 20 January 2010
Report for Period 28 November to 25 December 2009The reporting period covers four weeks of nominal operations for the Rosetta spacecraft. Following the successful completion of the mission's last Earth swingby in the previous reporting period, all instruments are currently switched off. The spacecraft is now cruising towards asteroid Lutetia....
Published: 30 December 2009
Report for Period 14 November to 27 November 2009The reporting period covers the first two weeks after Rosetta's third Earth swingby. The scientific observations linked to the Earth swingby phase were concluded successfully. Fine orbit determination computations were conducted after the Earth swingby to verify Rosetta was on the desired outbound...
Published: 2 December 2009
Report for Period 7 November to 13 November 2009On 13 November at 07:45:40 UTC Rosetta flew past the Earth for its last swingby manoeuvre, which was conducted as planned and with the expected results. The final approach to the Earth was very stable and no further trajectory correction manoeuvres were required at the two remaining reserved slots,...
Published: 18 November 2009
Report for Period 31 October to 6 November 2009During the reporting period Rosetta's approach to the Earth for the swingby manoeuvre on 13 November continued according to the plan. The navigation campaign did not require any trajectory correction manoeuvre in the allocated slot on 5 November (DoY 309).
Published: 11 November 2009
Report for Period 17 October to 30 October 2009The reporting period covers two weeks of the navigation campaign leading to Rosetta's third Earth swingby on 13 November. The campaign's primary trajectory correction manoeuvre was successfully executed on DoY 295 to set the spacecraft onto the right path for the Earth swingby.
Published: 4 November 2009
Report for Period 3 October to 16 October 2009The remaining activities of the payload check-out 10 (PC10) have been conducted in the reporting period, along with spacecraft maintenance activities. The reporting period also covers the first two weeks of the navigation campaign leading to Rosetta's third Earth swing-by on 13 November.
Published: 21 October 2009
Report for Period 26 September to 2 October 2009The reporting period covers the second week of the payload check-out 10 (PC10). Instruments were activated, tested, and calibrated and software updated as planned. Both the spacecraft and the ground segment are behaving nominally.
Published: 7 October 2009
Report for Period 19 September to 25 September 2009The reporting period covers the first week of the payload check-out 10 (PC10). The spacecraft activities were conducted according to plan. Instruments are being activated, tested, and calibrated and software updated as planned. Both the spacecraft and the ground segment are behaving nominally.
Published: 30 September 2009
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