A dataset provided by the European Space Agency

Name RO-C-RPCIES-2-ESC2
Mission INTERNATIONAL-ROSETTA-MISSION
URL ftp://psa.esac.esa.int/pub/mirror/pub/mirror/INTERNATIONAL-ROSETTA-MISSION/RPCIES/RO-C-RPCIES-2-ESC2-V2.0
DOI https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-dfj611e
Abstract This dataset contains EDITED DATA of the Rosetta RPCIES instrument taken during the comet escort 2 phase (ESC2). The target of this phase was comet 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO 1 (1969 R1). Included are the data taken between 11 Mar 2015 and 30 Jun 2015. This dataset supercedes the previous RO-C-RPCIES-2-ESC2-V1.0 dataset. The primary change is the addition of the cycle duration field to the data products.
Description Data Set Overview = The following describes the nature of instrument operation during the various periods for which IES data are available in this submission. In all cases the data are electron and ion counts as function of energy, azimuth (direction in the instrument symmetry plane) and ^ation (angle above or below the symmetry plane). IES measured solar wind plasma continuously throughout this phase until the end of April 2015 and except for an occasional brief period if the S/C pointing was not optimal. The solar wind disappearance is probably the result of its deflection around the comet as the comet activity increased. The plasma measured by IES during this latter period was mostly pickup ions and associated electrons. During this period the comet (and Rosetta) continued toward perihelion and reached 1.35 AU from the Sun. The spacecraft-comet distance varied between ~90 km to ~ 390 km. Processing All Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC) data packets are transmitted together during downlinks with Rosetta. RPC data are retrieved from the Data Distribution System (DDS) at European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) to a central RPC data server at Imperial College London. Data for IES is copied from the RPC central data server by IESGS at Southwest Research Institute. The pipeline processing software is the IES Ground System (IESGS). IESGS extracts IES CCSDS packets from the RPC collective data files stored on the RPC central data server at Imperial College. These packets are used to build ion and electron data products. The data products are grouped by date and written out to PDS compliant archive data files. One data file is created for each day. IESGS also generates the labels for the archive data files. IES science products, archive and label files, and limited spectrograms are available to team scientists on the IESGS website. Coordinate System = In order to determine IES point...
Instrument RPCIES
Temporal Coverage 2015-03-11T00:02:45Z/2015-06-30T23:59:28Z
Version V2.0
Mission Description TABLE OF CONTENTS ---------------------------------- = ROSETTA Mission Overview = ROSETTA Mission Objectives - Science Objectives = Mission Profile = Mission Phases Overview - Mission Phase Schedule - Solar Conjunctions/Oppositions - Payload Checkouts = Mission Phases Description - Launch phase (LEOP) - Commissioning phase - Cruise phase 1 - Earth swing-by 1 - Cruise phase 2 (and Deep Impact) - Mars swing-by - Cruise phase 3 - Earth swing-by 2 - Cruise phase 4 (splitted in 4-1 and 4-2) - Steins flyby - Earth swing-by 3 - Cruise phase 5 - Lutetia flyby - Rendez-Vous Manoeuver 1 - Cruise phase 6 - Rendez-Vous Manoeuver 2 - Near comet drift (NCD) phase - Approach phase - Lander delivery and relay phase - Escort phase - Near perihelion phase - Extended mission = Orbiter Experiments - ALICE - CONSERT - COSIMA - GIADA - MIDAS - MIRO - OSIRIS - ROSINA - RPC - RSI - VIRTIS - SREM = LANDER (PHILAE) - Science Objectives - Lander Experiments = Ground Segment - Rosetta Ground Segment - Rosetta Science Operations Center - Rosetta Mission Operations Center - Rosetta Lander Ground Segment - Lander Control Center - Science Operations and Navigation Center - Rosetta Scientific Data Archive = Acronyms ROSETTA Mission Overview = The ROSETTA mission is an interplanetary mission whose main objectives are the rendezvous and in-situ measurements of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, scheduled for 2014/2015. The spacecraft carries a Rosetta Lander, named Philae, to the nucleus and deploys it onto its surface. A brief description of the mission and its objectives can be found in [GLASSMEIERETAL2007A]. A detailed description of the mission analysis can be found in the ROSETTA User Manual [RO-DSS-MA-1001], and the flight Operations Plan [RO-ESC-PL-5000]. On its long way to the comet nucleus after a Launch by Ariane 5 P1+ in March 2004, the ROSETTA spacecraft orbited the Sun ...
Creator Contact BRAD TRANTHAM
Date Published 2017-06-05
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, 2017-06-05, RO-C-RPCIES-2-ESC2, V2.0. https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-dfj611e