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Philae has landed

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Re: Philae has landed

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Post by Kiro »

sp332 wrote: post #8
harywilke wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or straight from the ESA http://rosetta.esa.int/?landing

Or the xkcd version https://xkcd.com/1446/ (see older frames at http://xkcd1446.org/ , the first few are blank so start around #16)

What is this? What's the point?

Re: Philae has landed

#12

Post by k-mcgrady »

Amazing job! This might be a silly question but are their any ideas as to the actual real world benefits we could see from this? The director-general of the ESA said "This is a big step for human civilisation" so I presume there is some idea of what they expect to gain from this mission?

Edit: Thanks for all the replies! I'm at work now but will take a look at them this evening.

Re: Philae has landed

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Post by the_rosentotter »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #12

Amazing job! This might be a silly question but are their any ideas as to the actual real world benefits we could see from this? The director-general of the ESA said "This is a big step for human civilisation" so I presume there is some idea of what they expect to gain from this mission? Edit: Thanks for all the replies! I'm at work now but will take a look at them this evening.

Probably 'just' the achievement of catching a speeding comet and landing on it. The comet itself doesn't seem all that interesting.

Re: Philae has landed

#15

Post by sp332 »

Kiro wrote: post #11
sp332 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or the xkcd version https://xkcd.com/1446/ (see older frames at http://xkcd1446.org/ , the first few are blank so start around #16)

What is this? What's the point?

It's a series of over 100 frames that are being drawn and uploaded live before and during the probe launch. It illustrates the position and status of the probe. (Edit: it's still updating)

Re: Philae has landed

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Post by bsaul »

Anyone knows where i could find some info about the software stack this kind of probes are being built with ? Languages, programming methods, patching methods,os, runtime, etc.

I'm really curious to know how different it is from the web or enterprise development worlds.

Re: Philae has landed

#18

Post by stinos »

talltofu wrote: post #3

Live streaming of the event here http://news.yahoo.com/video/abc-news-plus-special-report-220... Thanks @brianpgordon - Check out this gif of the orbital maneuvers required for Rosetta to reach its destination: https://i.imgur.com/TUkKuhf.gif Live twitter feed of ESA https://twitter.com/esaoperations It looks like @Philae2014 made a fairly gentle touch down on #67P based on amount of landing gear damping #CometLandin…

any link to footage of the actual landing?

Re: Philae has landed

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Post by JonnieCache »

harywilke wrote: post #6
talltofu wrote: post #3

Live streaming of the event here http://news.yahoo.com/video/abc-news-plus-special-report-220... Thanks @brianpgordon - Check out this gif of the orbital maneuvers required for Rosetta to reach its destination: https://i.imgur.com/TUkKuhf.gif Live twitter feed of ESA https://twitter.com/esaoperations It looks like @Philae2014 made a fairly gentle touch down on #67P based on amount of landing gear damping #CometLandin…

or straight from the ESA http://rosetta.esa.int/?landing

The official one was struggling hard when I tried. The BBC is putting out the same stream, with english translations when appropriate: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-29985988
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