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Rosetta Lander Control Center

The MUSC in Cologne houses the Lander Control Center (LCC). Supported by their scientific partner (SONC) at CNES in Toulouse, the PHILAE team at LCC was responsible for the control and operation of the Lander. Commands were sent from the LCC to the European control center ESOC in Darmstadt, from where they are forwarded to the new ESA Deep Space Ground Station in New Norcia (Australia) or Malargüe (Argentina) which then transmits them to ROSETTA. Given the distance of ROSETTA from Earth, signal propagation delays can exceed half an hour (one direction). Reception of telemetry happens in reverse order. The operations team, engineers and scientists have monitored and analysed data from their instruments through the MUSC-provided data systems and control mechanisms. Following a successful and precise launch from the European space port in Kourou, French Guyana on 2nd March 2004, the first years of the mission were dominated by intense testing: Subsystems and experiments of both the orbiter as well as the lander are checked and their flight characteristics determined.

The Lander Control Center hosts further facilities supporting operations of the Lander. A functionally identical ground model of Philae allowed for the testing of planned function sequences and verification of automated procedures. A complex software simulator of the Lander could simulate specific system states and provided the engineers with an opportunity to optimise software configurations for scientific experiment operations on the comet.


Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team




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Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA


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Philae flight activities since launch of the Rosetta mission on 2nd March 2004
 
March 2004 Commissioning Lander Block1 (CVP1)
April 2004 Commissioning Lander Block2 (CVP2)
May 2004 Commissioning Lander Block3 (CVP3)
October 2004 Commissioning Lander Block4 (CVP4)
01.-07.03.2005 Earth Fly-by EFB1
29.03.2005 Passive Checkout 0 (PC0)
21.06.2005 Preparation of Passive Checkout 1 (PC1)
21.09.2005 System Tests on both Lander CPUs
30.09.-04.10.2005 Passive Checkout 1 (PC1) [full article]
07-08.03.2006 Passive Checkout 2 (PC2)
08.05.2006 Maintenance – Charging secondary battery to approx. 25% (SBC1)
28-29.08.2006 Passive Checkout 3 (PC3)
28.11.-09.12.2006 Interactive Lander Test – Passive Checkout 4 (PC4)
07.01.2007 Thermal behaviour test Orbiter & Lander – Preparation of Mars Swing-by (THC1)
22-25.02.2007 Mars Swing-by (MSB)
18-22.05.2007 Passive Checkout 5 (PC5)
17.09.-01.10.2007 Interactive Checkout 6 (PC6)
13.11.2007 Earth Fly-by EFB2
04-08.01.2008 Passive Checkout 7 (PC7)
09.07.-02.08.2008 Interactive Lander Test 8 (PC8)
05.09.2008 Steins Fly-by
30.01.-03.02.2009 Passive Lander Test (PC9)
23.09-02.10.2009 Interactive Lander Test (PC10)
24.02.2010 Lander Power System Test
25.04.-13.05.2010 Interactive Lander Test (PC12)
07-10.07.2010 Lutetia Fly-by
01-08.12.2010 Interactive Lander Test (PC13)
08.12.2010 Philae turned off
08.06.2011 Rosetta in power saving mode
20.01.2014 Rosetta 'woken up'
Philae Post Hibernation Commissioning:
28.03.2014 Philae Hibernation Commissioning - Block 0
08-10.04.2014 Philae Hibernation Commissioning - Block 1
14-17.04.2014 Philae Hibernation Commissioning - Block 2
20-23.04.2014 Philae Hibernation Commissioning - Block 3
13-14.07.2014 Calibration and Science (PDCS)
23 July 2014 Lander Power System Test
Philae Pre Delivery Science Observations:
September 2014 Battery Characterization and TXRX Test/PDCS Block 4
October 2014
 
Philae On Comet Activities:
01-12.11.2014 Philae Delivery Preparation
12.11.2014 Philae Separation, Descent and On-Comet Landing
12-15.11.2014 Philae First Science Sequence
   

 

Philae-Nachrichtenarchiv
10/07/2015 New communication with Philae – commands executed successfully
29/06/2015 Contact with Philae still irregular and unstable
22/06/2015 Lander Control Center in contact with Philae once again
16/06/2015 Nocturnal contact with Philae
16/06/2015 Lander Philae is awake – 'Hello' from space
16/06/2015 The search for Philae – like a needle in a haystack
16/06/2015 Listening for Philae once again
16/06/2015 Waiting patiently for Philae
25/11/2014 ROLIS – approaching 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 3D
25/11/2014 Philae's triple play
25/11/2014 Churyumov-Gerasimenko – hard ice and organic molecules
25/11/2014 Philae lander shortly before hibernation
14/11/2014 Überlebenskünstler Philae: Alle Instrumente im Einsatz
13/11/2014 Visit to Comet 67P – Philae has landed
24/10/2014 Gasströme und Staubfahnen auf Churyumov-Gerasimenko
24/10/2014 Landeplatz für Lander Philae bestätigt
16/09/2014 Philae lander – sunny landing area on the comet 'head'
13/06/2014 Raumsonde Rosetta: Die abenteuerliche Reise zum unbekannten Kometen
15/04/2014 Philae lander back in contact with Earth
27/01/2014 Rosetta: Signal aus dem Weltall
05/08/2011 Good night, Rosetta – European comet chaser goes into hibernation
05/08/2011 Rosetta spacecraft returns unique glimpses of asteroid Lutetia
02/09/2008 Steins Fly-by
16/01/2008 Mars Swing-by (MSB)
16/01/2008 Interactive Lander Test (PC4)
16/01/2008 Earth Fly-by I
Contact
Cinzia Fantinati
Microgravity User Support Center (MUSC)

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Tel.: +49 2203 601-3553

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Philae lander instruments
Landing on a Comet -
The Rosetta Mission

published on 23.10.2014
The working of… Philae, the comet lander
published on 08.10.2014
Chasing a Comet -
The Rosetta Mission

published on 15.01.2014
Steins Fly-by
Resolution: 640x480 px
Size: 1,5 MB
Update: 02.09.2008
Mars Swing-by
Auflösung: 847x740 px
Größe: 1 MB
Update: 09.02.2007
Erdvorbeiflug I
Auflösung: 800x300 px
Größe: 8 MB
Update: 04.03.2005
Erdvorbeiflug I
Auflösung: 800x200 px
Größe: 4.5 MB
Update: 03.03.2005
Links
Rosetta-Mission - Sonderseite des DLR
Blog Philae
Verabredung mit einem Kometen - Begleitung der Mission auf DLR_next, dem Jugendportal des DLR
ESA-Sonderseite zur Rosetta-Mission (engl.)
ESA Rosetta-Blog
DLR-Institut für Planetenforschung
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