Land on a Comet ? No worries says Aussie Engineer Warwick Holmes (53)

We rarely get to hear "insider" stories of extraterrestrial discovery. Doctor Karl meets Warwick Holmes - Australian Avionics Systems Engineer on Rosetta. He worked on the Philae mission (the one that  orbited the comet) seeking the chemical signatures of life. He gives us a blow by blow account of extraterrestrial exploration in the 21st Century. How do you test hardware to fly by the sun and withstand comet dust? How does a lad from South Australia land the best job on earth ? Beam us up Warwick ! First Podcast in 2016

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Land on a Comet ? No worries says Aussie Engineer Warwick Holmes (53)

Oct 22, 2017

We rarely get to hear "insider" stories of
extraterrestrial discovery. Doctor Karl meets Warwick Holmes -
Australian Avionics Systems Engineer on Rosetta. He worked on the
Philae mission (the one that orbited the comet) seeking the
chemical signatures of life. He gives us a blow by blow account of
extraterrestrial exploration in the 21st Century. How do you test
hardware to fly by the sun and withstand comet dust? How
does a lad from South Australia land the best job on earth ?
Beam us up Warwick ! First Podcast in 2016

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