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Land on a Comet ? No worries says Aussie Engineer Warwick Holmes (53)
Land on a Comet ? No worries says Aussie Engineer Warwick Holmes (53)
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Oct 22, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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
Released:
Oct 22, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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