Rosetta landing on this Comet, when's it on? And is it live?

I know there’s a programme on Discovery about the journey to this Comet, I’ve just recorded it.

But,

But having done some looking around, I seem unable to find a live feed and the date seems to be scheduled for Tuesday 1130pm ish with a signal back here on Earth at 830am following morning.

Scanning Discovery just seems to give reruns of tonight’s programme..

Anyone know if there’s a live (ish) feed on the tele??

Ta

Marvellous, ta

Are we all set to watch this then?

Yes,will Bruce Willis make an appearance ?

Meh, I think I will watch Armageddon instead.

edit: Puts fasthaggis on the list.

Thanks for reminding me, almost forgot about this.

Any body watched one of these things before? I’m under no illusion that I’m going to see a real time live HD feed of the probe landing on the surface but is it just a lot of waiting around waiting for a confirmation message from the probe or is there other interesting stuff going on?

Maybe some dancing girls or monkey who can juggle?

Well I stayed up all night for the first moon landing but I may pass on this one. Good science though.

Probably leave the esa Rosetta page[/url] open in my classroom tomorrow. Includes the livestream but might offer a bit more background. Separation af 8:30 in the morning which is remarkably civilised! No idea how long the descent will take though…

Esa’s Rosetta satellite will drop the probe on to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from an altitude of 20km.
If all goes to plan, the little robot, called Philae, will touch down about seven hours later, deploying screws and harpoons to secure its position.

That’s a leisurely trip then.

Will it be sponsored by Redbull?

bloody OB vans everywhere 😉

No idea how long the descent will take though

About 7 hours iirc.

bloody OB vans everywhere

Annoying isn’t it, might have to go to the pub for lunch tomorrow.

was taking some photos of ZDF setting up
the guy told me to go inside and take a photo there too 🙂

oh and live stream here is broken, but might just be Deutsche Telekom incapable of handling live videos in the evening.

http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/07/rosetta-and-philae-landing-timeline/

complete time line is there

Separation af 8:30 in the morning which is remarkably civilised!

that’s quite rare for Rosetta.

so touchdon at 4pm?

cool, can watch detachment with kimbers jr b4 nursery then touchdown later!

Just had a look at the live feed, and it appears a giant hand has taken over the control room.

Still “go” despite a thruster failure.

Due to be released any time now.

its all automated now, so it should be done before we know about it !

Crazy shirt!

first image sent back!!!

Elvis lives!

I think its landed, they all just got a bit excited in the control room

Looks like separation has been successful, then.

I think its landed, they all just got a bit excited in the control room

Hours to go until we find out if all the decimal points are in the right place.

Doh. Oh well, I will tune in later then.

2hrs before next real update/landing – so thats approx 11am. The livestream reminds me of the Eurovision song contest coverage, the good news is there is no Terry Wogan

I was hoping they were listening to that music in the control room!

It is very exciting stuff. What an astounding achievement. I do hope they can cope with it all, though Hawaiian shirt man may end up like this

Seems I was wrong about landing time, it not 11 but more like 4 as posted above 😳

Captain Kirk 🙂

Crazy shirt!

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30022469

if it goes wrong…

I just want to make it clear that I didn’t work on that bit 😉

There was more TV crew here for the Cassini/Huygens landing event. Notably the BBC in a much bigger way.

Can’t believe no one has posted this yet….

did they all go for lunch?
how very european

edit: sweet, im off out on the bike for a couple of hours, see you here for touchdown at 4

(followed by countdown at four thirty?)

Just over an hour to go.

XKCD is doing a live update:
http://xkcd.com/1446/%5B/url%5D

oh and live stream here is broken

This any better?
http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-comet-landing-live

just about to go live to they are saying. are we getting live video of the landing?

graham, that link is working great.

The BBC are streaming it too
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-29985988

Man on the moon!

Anyone else singing along?