Cassini-Huygens and the Titan Probe

[Analoguesat]

Todays the big day! Sequences from mission control spotted on 10832 this morning.

The feed frequency is reported to be :


Eutelsat W1 at 10 degrees East
Transponder B4, vertical, middle channel 1
F=11.0795 MHz, SR=5.632 MS/sec, FEC=3/4

if anyone wants a look at that one.

 

[Channel Hopper]

Confirmed W1 transponder is active and with audio

Comes up with - NEWSequipeDSNG10 as the title.

 

[damhy]

If you want the direct link to todays schedule it is:
http://television.esa.int/sche_detail.cfm?id=1332

 

[Analoguesat]

The BBC webdsite is reporting Huygens seems to be down safely.

h**p://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4175099.stm

 

[Analoguesat]

ESA TV now reported on Astra 1D at 23E as well!!

12032 MHz, pol.H SR:27500 FEC:3/4 SID:1000 PID:305/306 English.

 

[geebeeone]

If the touchdown is going to be shown live on BBC , who got there first to set up the camera?

 

[PoloMint]

Touchdown pics already on the web:

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html

 

[DaDragon]

PoloMint,
Thanks for the thread,been watching all day on the ESA channel,can't wait for the colour pics!!.I bet in a few months time there will be a poster to hang on your bedroom wall and it will be one of the biggest selling posters ever!!
Regards DaDragon.

 

[Analoguesat]

So which space organisation is going to be the first to send a craft to probe Uranus .

Sorry couldnt resist it! ;)

Arent the first pics from Titan fantastic!

I was stuck at work patching up ageing computers whilst my other half was watching the coverage

 

[Topper]

Arent the first pics from Titan fantastic!

I was stuck at work patching up ageing computers whilst my other half was watching the coverage

Yes they were fantastic and I too cannot wait until the colour pics are published, what colour is methane anyhow??? similar to meths or blue like paraffin??

BTW can relate to the patching up of ageing computers do it everyday I wish I could invent a way of installing Win98SE in my sleep.

 

[BGonaSTICK]

I wish I could invent a way of installing Win98SE in my sleep.

Must be possible, some idiot wrote it in his... O-Ha

 

[Analoguesat]

Yes they were fantastic and I too cannot wait until the colour pics are published, what colour is methane anyhow??? similar to meths or blue like paraffin??

BTW can relate to the patching up of ageing computers do it everyday I wish I could invent a way of installing Win98SE in my sleep.

Methane is clear - its what comes out of your gas pipes! (Its not smelly either - the stink has to be added for safety.)

For anyone with Sky only, ESA TV has turned up on 28E

12480 V 27500 2/3

ALthough you will have to ADD Channels

 

[Channel Hopper]

Im sure that the 'cleaning up' of the images received will give the surface of Titan an attractive edge.

At least the world can now look forward to a few more years of internal combustion engine use, we just need to make a rather large amount of piping.

(Wondering if the lander had a deployable flag on it - and what emblem it might have )

 

[Topper]

At least the world can now look forward to a few more years of internal combustion engine use, we just need to make a rather large amount of piping.

Very flexible piping at that

Methane is clear - its what comes out of your gas pipes! (Its not smelly either - the stink has to be added for safety.)

yes it is but only in the state as we know it, on Titan it is tristate as water is here so has anyone ever seen it as a liquid or indeed frozen solid?

 

[Analoguesat]

The first pics including the firstcolourised one are now up on the ESA web site

h**p://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html

Sadly Cassini had a data channel failure, so some of the data may have been lost I think Huygens itself is now dead - it was never meant to last more than a few hours and they got 7 hours life out of it. 7 years and 2 billion miles for 7 hours of life

 

[damhy]

7 years and 2 billion miles for 7 hours of life

Stupid isn't it, they should have used duracells so that we got 6 times longer!

 

[Channel Hopper]

Stupid isn't it, they should have used duracells so that we got 6 times longer!

With the amount of hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, they should have brought a tank of oxygen and two stroke generator (with electric start).

 

[Channel Hopper]

Just started, a presentation of the Titan probe results


Eutelsat W1 at 10 degrees East
Transponder B4, vertical, middle channel 2, F=11088.5 MHz, SR=5.632 MS/sec, FEC=3/4

Two audio channels: International sound and English interpretation

 

[DaDragon]

Think i've been watching the wrong channel,ESA on Astra,just a test card.!!Just saw ChannelHoppers post will go down and scan for it,it's probably over now!!!.Been sat there since 10 oclock this morning.What a dick i am!!!

Regards DaDragon.

 

[Analoguesat]

Theres a replay on 13E this afternoon:
Fri, Jan 21, 2005 | 15:00 - 15:15 GMT | 16:00 - 16:15 CET

Replay 1: Huygens on Titan - the Highlights
ESA TV Exchanges

Replay II: 22 January 12:15 -12:30 GMT

One week after the arrival of the Huygens probe at Titan, this Exchange provides a highlight edit of events 14-15 January 2005.

The images are at the same time pre-event coverage for the media briefing on 21 January at 11:00 hours, revealing more of Titan's secrets.

The script will be on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS37782.pdf

This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission's "Europe by Satellite" (EbS) service. You can find the complete transmission schedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV items, from the EbS Web site at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/schedule.cfm


More backgroud information can be found on: http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=35018




EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13° East (DVB/MPEG-2)
Horizontal, F=12,476 MHz (MCPC, Europe by Satellite)
SR=27,500 MS/sec, FEC=3/4