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| Watch the historic Rosetta comet landing live, starting now | Watch the historic Rosetta comet landing live, starting now |
| (about 20 hours later) | |
| UPDATE: AT 11:05 AM, SUCCESSFUL LANDING WAS CONFIRMED. | |
| For the next 24 hours or so, you can bite your nails right along with scientists from the European Space Agency and NASA as they attempt to drop a robotic probe onto a comet for the first time ever. You can read more about the mission here. | For the next 24 hours or so, you can bite your nails right along with scientists from the European Space Agency and NASA as they attempt to drop a robotic probe onto a comet for the first time ever. You can read more about the mission here. |
| [Updated: Landing details] | |
| The video above will stream live from mission control in Germany until 2 p.m. Wednesday. There's a viewing schedule on the ESA's Web site, subject to change of course. The team has already sailed through the first go/no-go decision point, but there are several left before the planned landing. Between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday night, two more decisions will take place. | The video above will stream live from mission control in Germany until 2 p.m. Wednesday. There's a viewing schedule on the ESA's Web site, subject to change of course. The team has already sailed through the first go/no-go decision point, but there are several left before the planned landing. Between 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday night, two more decisions will take place. |
| Here are Wednesday's highlights: | Here are Wednesday's highlights: |
| 1:00 a.m. Eastern time -- The team will make their final go/no-go decision, leading to final preparations for the separation of the Rosetta spacecraft and the Philae lander. | 1:00 a.m. Eastern time -- The team will make their final go/no-go decision, leading to final preparations for the separation of the Rosetta spacecraft and the Philae lander. |
| 4:03 a.m. Eastern time -- The scheduled separation. | 4:03 a.m. Eastern time -- The scheduled separation. |
| 7 a.m. Eastern time -- The first pictures from Philae are expected at this time. Mission control should also give an update on the data it's collecting during its descent. | 7 a.m. Eastern time -- The first pictures from Philae are expected at this time. Mission control should also give an update on the data it's collecting during its descent. |
| 9 a.m. Eastern time -- Mission control will undertake the final preparations for the landing, and much nail-biting will commence. | 9 a.m. Eastern time -- Mission control will undertake the final preparations for the landing, and much nail-biting will commence. |
| 11 a.m. Eastern time (plus or minus 15 minutes) -- With any luck, the probe will land (hopefully upright) on the comet. | 11 a.m. Eastern time (plus or minus 15 minutes) -- With any luck, the probe will land (hopefully upright) on the comet. |
| 12 p.m. Eastern time (at the earliest) -- Mission control will present the first panoramic image taken of the comet, assuming Philae has landed successfully. | 12 p.m. Eastern time (at the earliest) -- Mission control will present the first panoramic image taken of the comet, assuming Philae has landed successfully. |
| Good luck, Rosetta team! | Good luck, Rosetta team! |