Comet lander (delayed) TV coverage in UK?

Other than delayed S@N,Sun 16 Nov 2014 21:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29746430
no specific mention there would even be any ESA coverage on BBCNews
channel, half hour after 08:35 GMT ,12 Nov 2014.

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 17:16:56 +0000, N_Cook wrote:

Other than delayed S@N,Sun 16 Nov 2014 21:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29746430 no specific
mention there would even be any ESA coverage on BBCNews channel, half
hour after 08:35 GMT ,12 Nov 2014.

Radio Times shows "Frontiers: the Rosetta mission" 21:00 Radio 4 Wednesday
12 November 2014.

Mike.

On 09/11/2014 21:46, John wrote:
On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:02:15 -0600, Mike wrote:

On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 17:16:56 +0000, N_Cook wrote:

Other than delayed S@N,Sun 16 Nov 2014 21:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29746430 no specific
mention there would even be any ESA coverage on BBCNews channel, half
hour after 08:35 GMT ,12 Nov 2014.

Radio Times shows "Frontiers: the Rosetta mission" 21:00 Radio 4 Wednesday
12 November 2014.

Ooohh, goody. Will they be showing live, light-speed delayed pictures
on that radio show?
J.

P.S. no, I don't watch the radio channels very often. Why do you ask?




P.P.S. ESA/NASA could show the mission control centre as the
landed-safe/bounced-and-broke-Rosetta confirmations come in on all
national European and public service USAlien channels just to make the
geeks happier. They won't. And the national broadcasters wouldn't take
the feeds live anyway. Not even the "news" channels. Science ain't
news. *Sport* is Real News. Politics is Really Real News. Science is a
filler if there's no gossip to pad the last thirty seconds of a
programme.
Media types truly have no idea.
J.



Mike.

I suppose the media were discomfitted by the CERN/LHC public
commissioning, no bang or anything interesting just a dot on the screen,
how photogenic/newsworthy was that?
Now if ESA could arrange for a clanger to come up to a camera lens on
the comet lander probe and take a selfie, they'd be all over the story

It seems 08:35 is the release time of the lander and comet-fall is some
hours after that

On 08/11/2014 17:16, N_Cook wrote:
Other than delayed S@N,Sun 16 Nov 2014 21:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29746430
no specific mention there would even be any ESA coverage on BBCNews
channel, half hour after 08:35 GMT ,12 Nov 2014.

Webcasting on Livestream
http://new.livestream.com/ESA/cometlanding

Login required.
Program starts 20:00 GMT on 11th Nov and runs for 24 hours

Full schedule is apparently given here.

http://www.esa.int/esatv/Television

On 11/11/2014 15:44, OG wrote:
On 08/11/2014 17:16, N_Cook wrote:
Other than delayed S@N,Sun 16 Nov 2014 21:00
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-29746430
no specific mention there would even be any ESA coverage on BBCNews
channel, half hour after 08:35 GMT ,12 Nov 2014.

Webcasting on Livestream
http://new.livestream.com/ESA/cometlanding

Login required.
Program starts 20:00 GMT on 11th Nov and runs for 24 hours

Make that 19:00 GMT (20:00 CET)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30012854

Key timings for landing effort (GMT)

• Rosetta delivery manoeuvre - shortly after 06:00

• Latest Go/No-go decision - before 07:35

• Philae separates from Rosetta - 08:35

• Confirmation signal at Earth of separation - 09:03

• Rosetta's post-delivery manoeuvre - 09:15

• Radio connection established - 10:30

• First data from descending Philae after 12:00

• Landing of Philae on 67P - after 15:30

• Confirmation signal at Earth - around 16:00

I'd love to be a fly on the wall of the committee room currently
discussing the pros/cons of deploying ptolomy versus battery life for
"main sequence" experiments and chance of moving into more sunlit
posistion, versus flipping over or off into space