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Separation of Philae Rosetta probe module

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Day 11/12/2014 – 11:43 a.m.

11.41 The mission leaders expect to receive confirmation of the landing signal in a one hour window centered at 17.02. The first image of the surface of comet receive about two hours later.

11.34 ESA explains, Philae will take about seven hours to descend to the surface of the comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. During that time, take the opportunity to explore their environment and take pictures of its surface. It will measure the magnetic field, plasma and dust, and take surface data. The graph on the ESA along these lines describe the actions you perform probe to landing.

11.12 Confirmation of the separation was received on 10.03 on Space Operations Centre of ESA (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. Radio signals took 28 minutes and 20 seconds to cover the distance between the transmitter Rosetta our planet (hence the separation actually occurred at 9.35).

1110 About 9.35 am on Wednesday, Philae was detached and has started falling toward the comet. It will take seven hours to landing.

1100 Everything is set to make history in space exploration. On Wednesday, Rosetta, designed and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), will release a small research module called Philae which held the first landing of the story on the surface of a comet, 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko It is a high-risk maneuver that had never been tried before.