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MISSION NEWS AS OF FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER 2016
+ THE LISA PATHFINDER SCIENCE ARCHIVE IS ONLINE
Today, ESA's LISA Pathfinder Science Archive opens its virtual gates to the world. It contains data collected by the satellite during the mission's first few months, covering the nominal operations phase of the LISA Technology Package (LTP) - the European payload on LISA Pathfinder.
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+ COMETWATCH FROM KEPLER
During the last month of Rosetta's operations at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, it was no longer possible to observe the comet with telescopes on Earth because it was too close to the Sun's position in the sky and therefore not visible in the night-time.
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ROSETTA BLOG UPDATES
+ LOSS OF SIGNAL CONFIRMATION
Spacecraft Operations Manager Sylvain Lodiot confirms loss of signal (LOS) and end of Rosetta operations at 13:19 CEST, 30 September 2016, via the voice loop in the Main Control Room at ESA's space operations centre, Darmstadt, Germany.
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+ ALICE'S LAST SPECTRA
We were happy to spot this tweet from Rosetta's Alice instrument Principal Investigator Alan Stern over the weekend, showing the final spectrograph image obtained by the instrument moments before Rosetta impacted on to the surface of the comet on Friday.
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+ ROSETTA IMPACT SITE NAMED SAIS
In case you missed it during our live coverage on Friday, Rosetta's impact site has been named Sais.
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+ ROSETTA'S EARTH 'TWIN' SWITCHED OFF
Just as the real Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission on the comet a week ago today, so this week Rosetta's 'twin', an engineering qualification model here on Earth, was also switched off.
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