Rosetta, Philae and Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

[Sky_walker]

Interview on the live stream: http://rosetta.esa.int/

Landing gear on Philae has successfully deployed.

Edited November 12, 2014 by Sky_walker

[Fingal]

"Comet landing already a disaster, say parking bores"

Men who claim to know about parking have been strongly critical of the techniques being used to place the Philae lander on a comet.

36-year-old Stephen Malley, who is following events online, said: “No, no, no, no. They are using way too much thruster...

Full article:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/comet-landing-already-a-disaster-say-parking-bores-2014111292689

[lajoswinkler]

https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet

Full article on this is here.

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/11/the-singing-comet/

[Tommygun]

I'm starting to see internet congestion issues with the stream.

I hope there isn't a server crash once it gets close and more people are watching.

[Fingal]

I'm hoping for two things. Firstly a safe landing and secondly that they don't find three naked space vampires when they land.

[kzauner]

I hope there isn't a server crash once it gets close and more people are watching.

On can't rule out a crash; but the feed comes via akamai. They usually have the resources and bndwdth to handle a lot of users. So I think we wouldn't see a overload of the content-delivery Infrastructure.

[Sky_walker]

Just hit F5 if you have problems with connection/routing/etc to the live feed. It works fine.

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ESA Rosetta blog went down. Web servers can't cope with the traffic.

[Streetwind]

And they say people are uninterested in space...

I'm jealous of all you guys able to watch it, by the way. I even need to jump through hoops to be able to forum-post from work... video streams are right out. And even if I could make it work, the machine I'm on has no ability to output sound.

Edited November 12, 2014 by Streetwind

[Camacha]

Just hit F5 if you have problems with connection/routing/etc to the live feed. It works fine.

It works fine for about 10-25 seconds, then bogs down again. Just like yesterday. Does anyone have the direct feed adress? I want to try to watch it directly from a media player, to see if that makes any difference. I can't seem to find the address though.

[Sigma88]

do anyone knows if there are any mods adding comets to ksp?

even better, this specific comet and rosetta + philae?

that would be awesome!

[Sky_walker]

It works fine for about 10-25 seconds, then bogs down again. Just like yesterday. Does anyone have the direct feed adress? I want to try to watch it directly from a media player, to see if that makes any difference. I can't seem to find the address though.

You tried different browsers?

VPN connection to another server?

Live stream is here: http://new.livestream.com/esa/cometlanding

ps. for everyone else - if you'll scroll down you can see previous highlights.

pps. for me xkcd breaks more often than not :/

[Kryten]

pps. for me xkcd breaks more often than not :/

Best to view here.

Edited November 12, 2014 by Kryten

[Tommygun]

Separation from Rosetta taken earlier.

Viewing the underside of the solar panel and main body of Rosetta.

Bright spot is the Sun.

Edited November 12, 2014 by Tommygun

[astropapi1]

Incredible picture of Rosetta, isn't it? If I recall correctly, that picture was taken 50 seconds after separation and totally autonomously. Go ESA!

[hugix]

[Camacha]

You tried different browsers?

VPN connection to another server?

As stated before, a different browser combined with another version of Flash seems to have done the trick.

Live stream is here: http://new.livestream.com/esa/cometlanding

That's the webpage, not the URL of the stream itself. The latter is useful to view the stream directly in a media player, rather than through a browser. Just that address will not work.

[hugix]

there she is!

[Camacha]

Bye Philea, bon voyage, and keep in touch!

[hugix]

Just imagine, that picture is the first time in 10 years (!!!) the engineers saw her last.

[Camacha]

Is anyone else physically excited here? I can imagine a bit how people watching the moon landing must have felt. My extremities can't seem to keep still and my stomach seems to be crawling.

[merlinux]

Is anyone else physically excited here? I can imagine a bit how people watching the moon landing must have felt. My extremities can't seem to keep still and my stomach seems to be crawling.

I am glued to the webcast and it has been on since the separation 6 hours ago. So damn excited and scared about what is happening next... I hope it ends like the curiosity landing. I so want to see a pic of the surface, I might be in my mid thirties I feel like a little kid heh heh.

Edit: here comes the exicting bit landing any time from now. Most likely in 20 minutes!

Edited November 12, 2014 by merlinux

[Camacha]

Are we there yet?

I might be in my mid thirties I feel like a little kid heh heh.

I am both happy and sad to say I am a little kid, no matter how old I grow

[merlinux]

Are we there yet?

We won't know until confirmation of the landing (20min-30min from now). Although from my understanding the event is actually happening right now. Communication takes about 30min.

[PakledHostage]

Is anyone else physically excited here? I can imagine a bit how people watching the moon landing must have felt. My extremities can't seem to keep still and my stomach seems to be crawling.

I'm getting there. I just connected to the live stream.

[katateochi]

So Philea must have just landed (or not, but hopefully has!!). So tense! but they look pretty calm in mission control!