{"id":242941,"date":"2016-09-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=eb7b02557ec8c7ded437551475aca868"},"modified":"2016-09-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:00:00","slug":"rosettas-final-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242941","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta\u2019s final path"},"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\/2016\/09\/rosetta_s_final_path\/16143736-2-eng-GB\/Rosetta_s_final_path_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- START: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n<p>\nAnimation of Rosetta\u2019s final trajectory in the last 10 days of its mission at Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- STOP: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n<p><!-- START: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 24 September 2016, Rosetta will leave a close flyover orbit and transfer into the start of a 16 x 23 km orbit that will be used to prepare and line up for the final descent. In the evening of 29 September (20:50 GMT) Rosetta will manoeuvre onto a collision course with the comet, beginning the descent from an altitude of 19 km. The spacecraft will fall freely, without further manoeuvres, collecting scientific data during the descent.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- STOP: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n<p><!-- START: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n<p>\nThe trajectory shown in this animation is created from real data provided in the last month, but may not necessarily follow the exact distance\/time details because of natural deviations in the trajectory associated with the comet\u2019s gravity and outgassing.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- STOP: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/09\/rosetta_s_final_path\/16143736-2-eng-GB\/Rosetta_s_final_path_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><!-- START: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n<p>\nAnimation of Rosetta&rsquo;s final trajectory in the last 10 days of its mission at Comet 67P\/Churyumov&ndash;Gerasimenko.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- STOP: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n<p><!-- START: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 24 September 2016, Rosetta will leave a close flyover orbit and transfer into the start of a 16 x 23 km orbit that will be used to prepare and line up for the final descent. In the evening of 29 September (20:50 GMT) Rosetta will manoeuvre onto a collision course with the comet, beginning the descent from an altitude of 19 km. The spacecraft will fall freely, without further manoeuvres, collecting scientific data during the descent.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- STOP: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n<p><!-- START: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/p>\n<p>\nThe trajectory shown in this animation is created from real data provided in the last month, but may not necessarily follow the exact distance\/time details because of natural deviations in the trajectory associated with the comet&rsquo;s gravity and outgassing.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- STOP: including template: extension\/esa_ext\/design\/esn2\/templates\/content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl (design:content\/datatype\/view\/ezxmltags\/paragraph.tpl) --><\/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-242941","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\/242941","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=242941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243003,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242941\/revisions\/243003"}],"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=242941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}