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Report for Period 22 August to 18 September 2009The reporting period covers four weeks of operations during which the spacecraft was reconfigured from passive to active cruise mode, following the exit out of Near Sun Hibernation Mode (NSHM) on DOY251. With the mission's last planned near Sun hibernation phase completed, the spacecraft activities...
Published: 23 September 2009
Report for Period 25 July to 21 August 2009The reporting period covers four weeks in the passive cruise phase #6, which started on 2 April. During this phase the Rosetta spacecraft is configured in Near Sun Hibernation Mode (NSHM) and will remain so until beginning of September. During the reporting period the performance of the spacecraft and...
Published: 25 August 2009
Report for Period 27 June to 24 July 2009The reporting period covers four weeks in the passive cruise phase #6, which started on 2 April. During this phase the Rosetta spacecraft is configured in Near Sun Hibernation Mode (NSHM) and will remain so until beginning of September. During the reporting period the performance of the spacecraft and the...
Published: 3 August 2009
Report for Period 30 May to 26 June 2009The reporting period covers four weeks in the passive cruise phase #6, which started on 2 April. During this phase the Rosetta spacecraft is configured in Near Sun Hibernation Mode (NSHM) and will remain so until beginning of September. During the reporting period the performance of the spacecraft and the...
Published: 6 July 2009
Report for Period 2 May to 29 May 2009The reporting period covers four weeks in the passive cruise phase #6, which started on 2 April. During this phase the Rosetta spacecraft is configured in Near Sun Hibernation Mode (NSHM) and will remain so until beginning of September. During the reporting period the performance of the spacecraft and the...
Published: 3 June 2009
Report for Period 4 April to 1 May 2009The reporting period covers the first four weeks of the passive cruise phase #6, which started on 2 April. During this phase the Rosetta spacecraft is configured in Near Sun Hibernation Mode (NSHM) and will remain so until beginning of September. During the reporting period the performance of the spacecraft...
Published: 7 May 2009
Report for Period 21 March to 3 April 2009The reporting period covers the last two weeks of active cruise phase before the start of passive cruise phase 6 on 2 April 2009. The spacecraft is now in Near Sun Hibernation Mode (NSHM) and will remain in this passive cruise configuration until beginning of September. Spacecraft and ground segment...
Published: 6 April 2009
Report for Period 14 February to 20 March 2009The reporting period covers five weeks of active cruise phase characterised by several activities both on the spacecraft and the payload side.
Published: 27 March 2009
Report for Period 17 January to 13 February 2009The reporting period covers four weeks of active cruise phase characterised by platform and payload check-out activities. Spacecraft and ground segment performance during the reporting period have been nominal.
Published: 17 February 2009
Report for Period 6 December 2008 to 16 January 2009The reporting period covers six weeks of operations, during which Rosetta successfully passed the superior conjunction phase. The angular separation between the Earth and the Sun as seen from the spacecraft stayed below 3° (conjunction) between 17 December 2008 and 6 January 2009, with the...
Published: 22 January 2009
Report for Period 1 November to 5 December 2008The reporting period covers five weeks of active cruise phase dedicated to remaining payload check-out 8 (PC8) tests (for RSI) and investigation activities linked to anomalies recorded during the payload check-out and the asteroid fly-by phase.
Published: 10 December 2008
Report for Period 6 October to 31 October 2008The reporting period covers four weeks of active cruise phase. An investigation was performed of a problem that had occurred with the COSIMA instrument during the asteroid Steins fly-by, focussing on the instrument's Target Manipulation Unit (TMU).
Published: 11 November 2008
Report for Period 20 September 2008 to 5 October 2008The reporting period covers two weeks of activities mainly dedicated to the OSIRIS gravitational microlensing event observations.
Published: 10 October 2008
Report for Period 6 September to 19 September 2008The reporting period covers the two weeks of post-asteroid fly-by activities mainly dedicated to the downlink of science data. All science data acquired during the asteroid fly-by phase have been successfully retrieved on ground and operations are now continuing with the OSIRIS observations of...
Published: 23 September 2008
Report for Period 30 August to 5 September 2008The reporting period was characterised by the final navigation of Rosetta towards asteroid Steins, culminating in the successful flyby on the evening of 5 September 2008 at 18:38 UTC (the exact time of closest approach to be confirmed after detailed analysis of telemetry data). The navigation was...
Published: 10 September 2008
Report for Period 16 August to 29 August 2008Operations during the two weeks covered in this report focused on the refinement of the orbit determination process in the frame of the asteroid fly-by operations. Rosetta is now permanently pointing to asteroid Steins with occasional re-pointings required for instruments calibrations in preparation...
Published: 2 September 2008
Report for Period 3 August to 15 August 2008With the end of the payload check-out 8 Rosetta entered the asteroid Steins fly-by navigation campaign. During the two-week reporting period, operations have been characterised by asteroid observation sessions with the navigation cameras (NAVCAMs) and OSIRIS.
Published: 21 August 2008
Report for Period 19 July to 2 August 2008The two weeks covered by this report have seen the completion of the active payload check-out 8 activities. Operations have been nominal and the mission timeline continues now with the optical navigation campaign required for the early September fly-by of asteroid Steins.
Published: 8 August 2008
Report for Period 5 July to 18 July 2008During the reporting period the first two weeks of the active payload check-out 8 were executed, as well as the attitude and orbit control system (AOCS) check-out 8.
Published: 22 July 2008
Report for Period 7 June to 4 July 2008On 1 July 2008, DoY 183, Rosetta was taken out of Near Sun Hibernation Mode (NSHM) and reconfigured to Active Cruise Mode in preparation of the asteroid Steins fly-by phase.
Published: 21 July 2008
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