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How to land on a comet

Fred Jansen · TED

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About

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.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2015
Speaker
Fred Jansen
Year
2015
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Biology, Engineering, Astronomy and space
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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