Rosetta Spacecraft Status

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Rosetta Spacecraft Status

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Recent Spacecraft Activities

• Telemetry dumps from Near Sun Hibernation Mode
• Mainly monitoring and minor maintenance
  activities
• On-Board Control Procedures maintenance
• Attitude guidance update
• Solid State Mass Memory files maintenance
• RSI Checkout
• Up link Passive Checkout Timeline
• Wheel Off-Loading (now scheduled weekly)
• Thermal Characterisation of Spacecraft at 1 AU,
  SAS 110deg

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Recent Spacecraft Activities (2)

• New Norcia coverage 8 passes in August 2006
• 2 tracking passes with DSN
• During NSHM, RPC observed the passage of the s/c
  through the ion tail of comet Honda.
• Anomalous fuel consumption during NSHM last year
  did not re-occur this year.
• On 01 September, Rosetta was 288 million km from
  Earth
• 1.93 AU, one-way signal time 15 min 26 s
• and 156.3 million km from the Sun ( 1.04 AU).

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Rosetta Spacecraft Status AOCS
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Rosetta Payload Checkout (PC2 i.e. 3rd passive
checkout)
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Rosetta Spacecraft Status TTC
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RVM 1230111
RVM 2220514
Lutetia Flyby 100710
Mars Flyby 250207
Earth Flyby
Earth Flyby
Steins Flyby 050908
Earth Flyby
Comet Orbit Insertion220814
Launch020304
Landing101114
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Future Milestones

• Observation of Jupiter in March 2007