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Beating the OddsMonica M. Grady
The Open University
Enterprise TuesdayJudge Business School, Cambridge
Note: all images in this presentation are © ESA, unless stated otherwise
Planning and carrying out a space mission to a comet
Beating the Odds:
●What could (did) go wrong – and how were those problems solved?●Launch●Landing Site●Landing
Rosetta: Mission Timeline from Launch
September 2016Rosetta makes controlled landing on 67P. Mission Ends
November 2014Philae lands on comet
Rosetta will be ~ 573 million km from the Sun, 720 million km from Earth. One-way signal travel time will be ~ 40 minutes
July 2014
Comet P/67 Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
Getting closer…..September 2014
Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
14-11-2014; 10:00 (CET)
Philae from Rosetta
Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
Churyumov-Gerasimenko from Philae
14-11-2014; 16:00-ish (CET)
Copyright: ESA
Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
The Final FrameCopyright: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM
Lessons Learned:
● Be ambitious● Be flexible● Be co-operative● Be collaborative● Be optimistic
Title: Comet on 15 June 2015 – NavCamReleased: 24/06/2015 10:00 amCopyright: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0