Arrives today. 10 year trip.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space-probe-rosetta-will-today-enter-orbit-of-comet-67pchuryumovgerasimenko-and-prepare-to-send-down-a-lander/story-fnjwlcze-1227014972848

http://rosetta.esa.int/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2014/08/05/journey-4-billion-miles-rosetta-probe-less-day-away-historic-rendezvous-comet/#.U-H35-OSxDA

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/08050906-todays-the-day-rosetta.html



Edited by MUNRUBENMUZ: 6/8/2014 07:39:47 PM

Heard about the Rosetta on the radio this morning. Sounds really, really cool.

Basically sounds like the movie Armageddon though amirite :lol:

Rosetta will attempt to land today.

http://new.livestream.com/esa/cometlanding

There will also be a one hour program on nat geo showing on Thursday.

The landing attempt is expected at 16:00 GMT according to this, so that should be 03:00 AEDT Thursday morning (tomorrow night).

So exciting!

It's hard to tell how big some of the surface features are from the pictures of the comet, but it looks very rough.

It's a go mafucker

Thanks for the link. Watching now.

:lol: bald bloke in the way.

Sweet hoodie.

...that's it? Why is nobody talking us through this?

Audio quality of the dudes at Mission Control was terrible, just a mic by the camera in the corner, couldn't hear shit.

9 mins right?

PERFECT!!!!! :d

Two minutes til launch.

Anton Shkaplerov, Terry W. Virts and Samantha Cristoforetti all safely in orbit and generally unexploded, will rendezvous with the ISS in about six hours.

It's outfits like this that hold cool people back and prevent them from entering STEM fields. For shame.

Damn missed it.

It wasn't an American rocket, so it didn't explode.

Gotta say though with the accidents, one tragic, that have happened lately I'm not above admitting that my heart was in my mouth during ignition and the separations, but everything went fine.

The internal video of the crew for the whole launch was fantastic.

By now they'll have docked and are on board the ISS.

Only takes six hours to rendezvous now, they do it now just like I do in Kerbal by launching just after the station actually passes directly over the launch site and simply catch up with it, matching their orbit.

2 mins warning not good enough bro[-x



Edited by iridium1010: 24/11/2014 10:58:03 PM

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

So the Orion launch is in 3hours?

Just got home, has the launch been delayed?

Four minutes to launch.

this bitch gone be delayed and delayed

yup, first 'cause a boat came in the restricted zone, secondly because of wind, and now I have no idea.

Edited by iridium1010: 4/12/2014 11:27:40 PM

So 8mins for T-0?

-PB

Woooooooooooooo under the 4mins now.

-PB

Oh fuck off lol.

-PB