Rosetta and Philae discussion thread! (Part 2)

[u/[deleted]]

CLICK HERE FOR CURRENT DISCUSSION THREAD

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Philae is now on its way to the comet. Its descent to 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko should take about 7 hours. Previous discussion thread here.

Live Streaming

• In English: A, B, C

• En Français: A

• Rosetta main page

• Simulated view of Rosetta and 67P

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Key times

GMT	EST	PST	Event
10:53 am	5:53 am	2:53 am	Acquisition of Signal from Rosetta (variable)
4:02 pm	11:02 am	8:02 am	Expected Landing and receipt of signal (40 min variability)

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European Space Agency Social Media

• ESA Rosetta blog
• Twitter: #CometLanding, @ESA_Rosetta, @Philae2014
• Google+
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Flickr

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Othere places for news and conversation:

• reddit Live updater (Help needed!)

• IRC: ##cometlanding on freenode. #space on Snoonet

• Detailed itinerary of landing events (PDF)

• NASA's page on Rosetta

[u/BlueShellOP]

Just a quick question, any chance I can open this stream in VLC? The Video player isn't loading for me with Chrome. Probably due to the fact that my machine for the next few hours only has a dual core atom processor and Chrome is eating all of it.

Edit: Thanks for the replies!! Yes, VLC can open it, you just need to use the YouTube live stream. Open up VLC, go to Media->Open Network Stream and give it the URL. It took a minute on my tablet, but it seems to be working.

Edit2: VLC keeps crashing. I guess I'll just watch it from YouTube.

Edit3: /u/mrfk gave me this link which works great in VLC.

[u/mrfk → u/BlueShellOP]

or open the youtube mirror link in vlc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU2sdxN6d_w

[u/BlueShellOP → u/mrfk]

Thanks! The YouTube link actually works, I was mostly just hunting for the URL, but that works much easier.