{"id":220061,"date":"2014-05-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"478726093304eb5fc41d30815c8ee9b8"},"modified":"2014-05-12T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T22:00:00","slug":"rosetta-puts-on-the-brakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220061","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta puts on the brakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/05\/rosetta_puts_on_the_brakes\/14517916-2-eng-GB\/Rosetta_puts_on_the_brakes_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta is about to put on the brakes to ensure that it is on target for comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video explains the crucial orbit correction manoeuvres that are required to slow down Rosetta\u2019s speed, relative to the comet, from 750 metres per second to just one metre per second between May 21st and August 5th.&nbsp; By then, nine thruster burns (including one test burn in early May) will have reduced the distance between them from one million kms to just under 200 kms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe also see the first images of the comet from the spacecraft\u2019s OSIRIS camera (Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System), taken between March 24th and May 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;2014. As the spacecraft gets closer to the comet, further images will improve the orbital corrections and provide more details about the comet\u2019s shape, size and rotation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe video includes interviews with Rosetta Flight Director Andrea Accomazzo in English (A-roll and B-roll) and Italian (B-roll) and from Samuel Gulkis, principal investigator for the spacecraft\u2019s microwave instrument, MIRO, in English (A-roll and B-roll).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMIRO, built by an international team for the European Space Agency, will start taking measurements from late May onwards and will measure gases released from the comet as it approaches the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/05\/rosetta_puts_on_the_brakes\/14517916-2-eng-GB\/Rosetta_puts_on_the_brakes_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nRosetta is about to put on the brakes to ensure that it is on target for comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video explains the crucial orbit correction manoeuvres that are required to slow down Rosetta\u2019s speed, relative to the comet, from 750 metres per second to just one metre per second between May 21st and August 5th.&nbsp; By then, nine thruster burns (including one test burn in early May) will have reduced the distance between them from one million kms to just under 200 kms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWe also see the first images of the comet from the spacecraft\u2019s OSIRIS camera (Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System), taken between March 24th and May 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;2014. As the spacecraft gets closer to the comet, further images will improve the orbital corrections and provide more details about the comet\u2019s shape, size and rotation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe video includes interviews with Rosetta Flight Director Andrea Accomazzo in English (A-roll and B-roll) and Italian (B-roll) and from Samuel Gulkis, principal investigator for the spacecraft\u2019s microwave instrument, MIRO, in English (A-roll and B-roll).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMIRO, built by an international team for the European Space Agency, will start taking measurements from late May onwards and will measure gases released from the comet as it approaches the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}