# How to land on a comet

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2015
- Speaker: Fred Jansen
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Physics, Biology, Engineering, Astronomy and space
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/fred_jansen_how_to_land_on_a_comet)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [How to land on a comet](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/fred_jansen_how_to_land_on_a_comet/51919557119c), 18 min (TED's player)