Rosetta sees stars – unfortunately false ones
Submit on Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 22:58
During its most recent close flyby last Saturday, where Rosetta flew within 14 km of the surface of its target comet, the spacecraft experienced significant difficulties in navigation. This resulted in its high gain antenna starting to drift away from pointing at the Earth, impacting communications, and was subsequently followed by a ‘safe mode’ event. The spacecraft has now been successfully recovered, but it will take a little longer to resume normal scientific operations.
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