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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts) Wed Aug 6, 2014, 04:16 AM Aug 2014

Live feed Rosetta now 100km from comet

Watch the live feed

http://rosetta.esa.int/

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Live feed Rosetta now 100km from comet (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Aug 2014 OP

I used this one jakeXT Aug 2014 #1

For me, that says the live feed starts in half an hour (1100 GMT) muriel_volestrangler Aug 2014 #2

jakeXT

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1. I used this one

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Wed Aug 6, 2014, 04:55 AM

Aug 2014

http://www.livestream.com/eurospaceagency

muriel_volestrangler

(101,331 posts)

2. For me, that says the live feed starts in half an hour (1100 GMT)

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Wed Aug 6, 2014, 06:33 AM

Aug 2014

The BBC has quotes from ESA saying they've already arrived:

In a first for space history, the spacecraft was manoeuvred alongside a speeding comet to begin mapping its surface in detail.

The spacecraft fired its thrusters for six and a half minutes to finally catch up with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

"We're at the comet!" said Sylvain Lodiot of the European Space Agency (Esa) operations centre in Germany.

"After 10 years, five months and four days travelling towards our destination, looping around the Sun five times and clocking up 6.4 billion km, we are delighted to announce finally 'we are here'," said Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general of Esa.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28659783

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