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Main Rosetta Burn

Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2014 | 06:30 - 06:48 GMT | 08:30 - 08:48 CEST

Replay: Wed, Jun 11, 2014 | 15:00 - 15:18 GMT | 17:00 - 17:18 CEST

Type: ESA TV Exchange

Format: 16:9

Rosetta is now closing its target: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and key manoeuvres have been done recently to slow down the spacecraft with the objective to have Rosetta orbiting the comet early August.
Rosetta has successfully completed the first of three main thruster burns. Two further main burns in June (4^th and 18th), and six smaller burns between now and August, are ensuring that the spacecraft is on target for comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The first burn took place 500 million kilometres away on May 21^st, used 218 kilogrammes of fuel and lasted seven hours and sixteen minutes – one of the longest thruster burns in ESA’s history.
This video shows members of the mission team monitoring the burn in real time at the Rosetta control room at the European Space Operations Centre at Darmstadt in Germany. It also includes the role of the spacecraft’s ALICE instrument and how the Rosetta Plasma Consortium, a set of five instruments, is preparing for the release of the Philae lander onto the comet’s surface.
It contains interviews with: Fred JANSEN, Rosetta Mission Manager, ESA in English (A-roll); Sylvain LODIOT, Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Manager, ESA, in English (A-roll) and French (B-roll); Karl-Heinz GLASSMEIER, Rosetta Plasma Consortium Principal Investigator in English (A-roll) and German (B-roll); Alan STERN, ALICE Principal Investigator in English (A-roll).

Preview and download:
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2014/06/Main_Rosetta_burn

Script:
EbS96688.doc

Satellite Parameters: Eutelsat 9A at 9 degrees E, transponder 59, downlink frequency 11900.1 horizontally polarised, symbol rate 27,500 FEC 2/3.