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UPDATE: Rosetta to Finish its Slow Descent to Comet's Surface Friday Morning - SIGNAL LOST

posted by janrinok on Friday September 30 2016, @06:53AM   
from the going-down dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

It's time for Europe's comet probe, Rosetta, to die. At 4:48pm ET (20:48 UTC) Thursday, the spacecraft fired its thruster for 208 seconds, setting Rosetta on course for a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on Friday morning at approximately 7:20am ET (12:20 UTC).

In accord with the spacecraft's descent to the surface, the European Space Agency will provide live coverage via Livestream about an hour before the landing time. The live video will feature status updates from mission controllers live from the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany.

The spacecraft should touch down at a walking pace, then be commanded to shut down.

Signal Lost as expected at 12:18 UTC

Source: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/rosetta-to-finish-its-slow-descent-to-comets-surface-friday-morning/

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• i lit a match while holding it in my pee pee (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2016, @08:21AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2016, @08:21AM (#408287)

  it screamed and then bought me breakfast. i said "see you in the evening"
  and the match said "thank you for giving me life - can you burn more of me on some cake?"
  so i did it and the match said "FUCK YOU I AIN'T NO TRAVELING CIRCUS!"
  the match then found another match in the batch of matches.

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