Kritische Tracking-Events laut Rosetta-Blog für heute (Zeitangaben in UTC):
10:00 WAKE UP (2:00 am PST)
14:35 NASA DSS-14 (Goldstone 70m) BOT (Begin of track) – watching for signal just in case
~17:00 Rosetta turns on S-band transmitter (45 min OWLT – one-way light time for signal to reach Earth)
After 17:30 – from this time on all Rosetta times estimated
~17:45 NASA DSS-14 captures carrier signal
~18:10 Uplink command to ROSETTA to turn on telemetry (i.e. start downloading data)
18:15 DSS-43 (Canberra 70m) BOT
~18:55 Rosetta turns on telemetry
~19:40 First telemetry data captured at DSS-14 and DSS-43
20:34 ESA DSA1 (New Norcia 35m) BOT
21:45 Turn off DSS-14 uplink transmitter
21:50 Turn on DSS-43 uplink transmitter
21:50 DSS-14 End of Track (EOT)
Quelle:
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/01/20/tracking-timeline-critical-times/