August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
On the morning of 12 December 2002, I arrived at my office and noticed that Andrea Accomazzo, my deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager, was in the room next door to the office of Manfred Warhaut, the Rosetta Ground Segment Manager. He called me in ...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
The cruise towards Mars was the first opportunity to reduce the frequency of our contacts with Rosetta. We decided to go down to one contact per week and gain experience with that before pushing to longer periods. The spacecraft designers had ...
March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
The long years of hibernation, out of contact with Rosetta, were spent completing the preparation for the comet phase of the mission, defining operations concepts, designing and testing software tools and procedures, hiring and training the ...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
osetta was initially conceived in the early 1980s well before an international fleet of spacecraft, including the ESA Giotto probe, flew by the nucleus of comet Halley in March 1986, imaging for the first time in history the nucleus of a comet. The ...
26 August 2015
Rosetta Experts to Present the Mission at International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem
...of Philae, its mission continues today” said Dr. Paolo Ferri, Head of ESA Mission Operations and former Rosetta ...knowledge of the history of the Solar System,” he continued. Dr. Ferri will be joined in Jerusalem by Dr. Stephan Ulamec, the Philae ...
30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
...State Secretary. "Wake up, Rosetta!" - that's history. It's now time to say: "Sleep well, Rosetta." ROOM spoke to Dr. Paolo Ferri, Spacecraft Operations Manager for the Rosetta Mission, head of Solar and Planetary Missions Operations division on this...
