November 7, 2014

Agenda of the rendez-vous with the comet

November 2013: ISON comet passage (travelling at about 1 million km from the Sun, it disintegrated during this passage)
January 20, 2014: wake up of Rosetta probe (hibernating since June 2011)
March 28, 2014: wake up of Philae
March-April 2014: complementary in-flight commissioning of the instruments and Philae
May-June 2014: main breaking of Rosetta probe
July 2014: first good image of Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet
September 2014: insertion of the probe in orbit around the comet nucleus
August-October 2014: choice of the landing site
October 19, 2014: comet disturbing the Martian probes at 120.000 km from Mars
November 12, 2014: landing of Philae on the comet
November 12-16, 2014: Philae main scientific mission
Spring 2015: evolution of the comet with the proximity of the Sun (discontinuous activity of the nucleus in surface and through time) / Philae "long term" science / Orbiter escort phase
August 2015: passage of comet at the perihelion
December 2015: end of Rosetta mission