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Rosetta mission. Live on NASA channel.
« on: November 12, 2014, 09:37:22 AM »
Along with ESA's internet feed the NASA channel live coverage, commentary, and analysis. Channel 346 on DirecTV. Pretty cool stuff, this.

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Re: Rosetta mission. Live on NASA channel.
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2014, 11:00:27 AM »
Feed has gone live to ESA Mission Control. Surface contact information expected at any moment.

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Re: Rosetta mission. Live on NASA channel.
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2014, 11:01:56 AM »
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Re: Rosetta mission. Live on NASA channel.
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2014, 11:07:56 AM »
Touchdown confirmed. They did it! Awaiting surface telemetry.

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Re: Rosetta mission. Live on NASA channel.
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2014, 11:46:43 AM »
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Re: Rosetta mission. Live on NASA channel.
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2014, 02:52:06 PM »
I for one welcome our new interplanetary overlords.

Wonder if NASA is paying the daily rate for parking or if they are using long-term.

And it's nice to see that the boys at JPL remembered not to intermingle meters and feet.

On a serious note, what's the radio signal time delay from here to there?

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Re: Rosetta mission. Live on NASA channel.
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2014, 03:01:02 PM »
Quote from: vaskidmark on November 12, 2014, 02:52:06 PM

On a serious note, what's the radio signal time delay from here to there?

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28 minutes from lander to mission control. Don't know how much of that is processing and relay delay through the orbiter.

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Re: Rosetta mission. Live on NASA channel.
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2014, 07:38:20 PM »
So they have to be thinking 28 minutes ahead, plus any time for the action to do what it is supposed to.

And I have trouble some days keeping a steady 2 minutes behind.

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