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Cosmic ray dose monitoring using RadFET sensors of the Rosetta instruments SESAME and COSIMA
Fischer, Henning; Koch, Andreas; Seidensticker, Klaus J. +5 more
On its more than 10 years journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Rosetta carried RadFET ionising dose monitors in the central electronics of the orbiter instrument COSIMA and the lander instrument SESAME. The readings of the dosimeters were corrected for the temperature of the devices during measurements. Because the sensitivity of RadFETs de…
Command and data management system (CDMS) of the Philae lander
Schmidt, W.; Balázs, A.; Baksa, A. +9 more
The paper covers the principal requirements, design concepts and implementation of the hardware and software for the central on-board computer (CDMS) of the Philae lander in the context of the ESA Rosetta space mission, including some technical details. The focus is on the implementation of fault tolerance, autonomous operation and operational fle…
Corrigendum to "The SESAME/CASSE instrument listening to the MUPUS PEN insertion phase on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko" [Acta Astronaut., DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2016.02.018]
Schmidt, W.; Knollenberg, J.; Knapmeyer, M. +7 more
This contribution corrects a table given in a previous contribution.
Editorial of the special issue - "Rosetta and Philae at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko"
Taylor, Matthew G. G. T.; Ulamec, Stephan
Giotto, the first european/ESA - interplanetary space probe had not flown by Halley's comet, yet, when the first plans for the next mission to investigate a comet were being made. back in 1984, Rosetta became part of ESAs horizon 2000 programme, originally envisioned as a comet nucleus sample return mission.
Performance of the mission critical Electrical Support System (ESS) which handled communications and data transfer between the Rosetta Orbiter and its Lander Philae while en route to and at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
McKenna-Lawlor, Susan; Schmidt, Walter; Geurts, Koen +4 more
The Electrical Support System (ESS), which was designed and built in Ireland, handled commands transmitted from the Rosetta spacecraft to the Command and Data Management System (CDMS) aboard its Lander Philae during a ten year Cruise Phase to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as well as at the comet itself. The busy Cruise Phase included three Earth…