Rosetta Project
News: On June 8 at 07:30 UTC Rosetta was spun-up to stabilise its attitude in view of the hibernation mode.The spacecraft behaviour, as far as we could monitor, was excellent and allowed the flight control team at ESOC in Darmstadt to release the command to enter hibernation mode later in the afternoon.
The last RF pulse from the spacecraft was detected at ca. 14:12:00 UTC as expected and after that no further signal could be seen from the spacecraft thus confirming a successful hibernation entry.
The wake-up of the satellite is scheduled for 20th of January 2014.
Presentation of Rosetta Payload (FMI) large (47MB PDF) / smaller (21,5MB PDF)
FMI's contributions to the Rosetta Lander Philae:
The Permitivity Probe PP as part of Philae's instrument group SESAME; Principle Investigator: Walter Schmidt, FMI
The autonomous Mass Memory of Philae's Central Data Management System CDMS
FMI's contributions to the Rosetta orbiter:
The dust spectrometer COSIMA
The Langmuir Probe LAP as part of the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC)
The Ion Composition Analyzer ICA as part of the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC)
FMI supports the Rosetta project via extensive data analysis and modelling efforts, mainly concentrating on the plasma- and dust environment of the comet. This activity is funded by a grant from the Finnish Academy of Sciences