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| No. 145 - Atmospheric Drag Experiment |
Report for Period 17 August to 23 August 2008
All operations have been nominal during the reporting period. Five successive passes around pericentre were devoted to spacecraft tracking as part of the atmospheric drag experiment (ADE). |
| Date: 28 Aug 2008 |
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| No. 102 - Start of Optical Navigation Campaign |
Report for Period 3 August to 15 August 2008 With the end of the payload check-out 8 Rosetta entered the asteroid Steins fly-by navigation campaign. During the two-week reporting period, operations have been characterised by asteroid observation sessions with the navigation cameras (NAVCAMs) and OSIRIS. |
| Date: 21 Aug 2008 |
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| No. 144 - Routine Operations |
Report for Period 10 August to 16 August 2008 All operations have been nominal during the reporting period. |
| Date: 20 Aug 2008 |
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| No. 143 - Fourth Pericentre Lowering Manoeuvre |
Report for Period 3 August to 9 August 2008
All operations have been nominal during the reporting period. The fourth and final pair of Orbit Control Manoeuvres (OCMs) to lower the pericenter altitude and to raise the apocentre altitude was executed. For the first time, there have been clear indications of a very low level of atmospheric drag causing an estimated reduction in apocentre altitude of 6-7 metres at each pericentre passage. |
| Date: 13 Aug 2008 |
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| No. 101 - Active Payload Checkout 8 Completed |
Report for Period 19 July to 2 August 2008
The two weeks covered by this report have seen the completion of the active payload check-out 8 activities. Operations have been nominal and the mission timeline continues now with the optical navigation campaign required for the early September fly-by of asteroid Steins. |
| Date: 08 Aug 2008 |
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| No. 142 - Third Pericentre Lowering Manoeuvre |
Report for Period 27 July to 2 August 2008
All operations have been nominal during the reporting period. The third pair of Orbit Control Manoeuvres (OCMs) to lower the pericenter altitude and to raise the apocentre altitude was executed. Planning of the fourth pair was performed and commands were uploaded to the spacecraft for execution during the next reporting period. |
| Date: 07 Aug 2008 |
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