ESA\'s Rosetta Mission...

[J-man]

...is underway with the results scheduled to be confirmed by 11am EST tomorrow morning. It will be very interesting to see if the ESA can land the probe successfully on a moving comet traveling at an estimated 84,000 mph.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/11/11/risky-comet-landing-by-european-probe-will-be-7-hours-terror/

 

[Grey Colson]

Dat be cool stuff right thar! :thumbsup

 

[lotstodo]

I read articles like this and they leave me with questions. If the hard part is that they cannot control it during the last part of the descent, one must ask why they can't control it during the last part of the descent. Time lag maybe? It would have been nice if they would explain that though.

 

[J-man]

I hope it's successful in some ways but in others its success will be yet another black eye to our NASA. At least no lives of astronauts are at stake. Will be very very interesting.

 

[markdavd]

I read articles like this and they leave me with questions. If the hard part is that they cannot control it during the last part of the descent, one must ask why they can't control it during the last part of the descent. Time lag maybe? It would have been nice if they would explain that though.

They said on the radio this morning that the communication lag time is 1/2 hour.