March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
...in charge of mission operations for the managerial aspects, as part of my new responsibilities. To fill in for Andrea’s former role as Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Manager we selected Sylvain Lodiot, who had come back to the team a few years earlier...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
... 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 and asked if I knew? Seeing the expression on my face he realised I didn’t know what...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... reached a stable operations phase at Venus, and we decided to call back Andrea Accomazzo, who took my former position as Rosetta’s spacecraft operations manager. At the same time Elsa Montagnon was nominated spacecraft operations manager for the...
30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
... 30, 2016, marking the end of its 12-year mission. Rosetta continued sending back images of the comet up until the time...was a sad moment today when we saw the signal from Rosetta disappearing from the screens, about 30 seconds after the expected...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... expensive project, especially with just one interplanetary mission, Rosetta, on future ESA plans. But he was stubborn ...with industry the functionalities we required to operate this complex mission. Rosetta was very new to them as well, so we were all...
29 September 2016
Rosetta on the way to its final resting place on Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... comet on Friday, September 30. According to the ESA Rosetta blog, "Rosetta will collect science data until the very end of its...move further away from the Sun, making it more difficult for Rosetta's solar panels to recharge, and a decision was made by...
