How to land on a comet

Title:
How to land on a comet
Speaker:
Fred Jansen
Description:

As manager of the Rosetta mission, Fred Jansen was responsible for the successful 2014 landing of a probe on the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In this fascinating and funny talk, Jansen reveals some of the intricate calculations that went into landing the Philae probe on a comet 500 million kilometers from Earth — and shares some incredible photographs taken along the way.

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
17:47
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