June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... stronger sunlight will fall onto the solar panels, increasing the chances of a wake up. Lander Technical Manager Koen Geurts conducting a briefing for the general public on the latest Philae status during the bounce. There were...
15 June 2015
Rosetta’s Philae lander awakens
...–Gerasimenko to searching for organic compounds, a.k.a the building blocks of life. In the fourth issue of ROOM, we include, via Koen Geurts, the technical manager of the Philae lander, a detailed account of Philae’s historic comet landing.
