Lander Ground segment

The ROSETTA LANDER GROUND SEGMENT is composed of two entities:

The Science Operation and Navigation Centre (SONC), located at CNES in Toulouse (France), in charge of overall Rosetta Lander Navigation and science co-ordination including:

• Data retrieval & supervision,
• HouseKeeping and Science data processing,
• HouseKeeping and Science data display,
• Lander Science Operation scheduling,
• Lander Science Monitoring,
• Lander status & operations reporting,
• Landing site selection: trajectory computation, landing location uncertainties, illumination, slopes,
• Assistance to the landing site selection process,
• Orbital events calculation and provision,
• Lander attitude & position determination after landing,
• Data Archiving,
• 3D visualisation.
  
  

More detailed information about the SONC.

The Lander Control Centre (LCC), located at DLR/MUSC in Cologne (Germany), in charge of Rosetta Lander operations including:

• Supervision of the lander through telemetry and analysis processing,
• Commanding the Lander,
• Managing Rosetta Lander Resources and providing SONC with the resource envelope for the scientific operations,
• Operating and maintaining the Lander ground reference model,
• Providing subsystem suppliers with processed telemetry data,
• Providing PIs with payload raw or processed data (on PI request only and in co-ordination with SONC),
• Coordinating Rosetta Lander operation activities with Rosetta operation centres and subsystem suppliers,
• Archiving all information (telemetry, telecommand, auxiliary data...) received or sent from the LCC,
• Maintaining Rosetta Lander platform and payload operations know-how.
  
  

More detailed information about the LCC.