Demonstrating Rosetta’s Philae lander on the Space Station (short version)

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ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst performs a demonstration of how ESA’s Rosetta mission will attempt to put a lander, called ‘Philae’ on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

This demonstration visualises the difficulties of landing on an object that has little gravitational pull. Using the weightless environment of the Space Station, Alexander attempts to land ‘Philae’ (an ear plug) onto the surface of the ‘comet’ (an inactive SPHERES robot) with increasing levels of difficulty: a rotating comet that is not moving to one that is both rotating and moving.

This short video is a preview of one of the six experiments and demonstrations in the Flying Classroom, Alexander will use small items to demonstrate several principles of physics in microgravity to students aged 10–17 years. The full version of the Rosetta-Philae landing demonstration is coming soon.

The Rosetta mission’s lander, Philae, will be deployed on 12 November at 08:35 GMT/09:35 CET from a distance of 22.5 km from the centre of the comet. It will land about seven hours later, with confirmation expected to arrive at Earth at around 16:00 GMT/17:00 CET.

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ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst demonstrates how #Rosetta will attempt to put the #Philae lander on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

EuropeanSpaceAgency
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It WILL be exciting. Good Luck Philae.

nightmaresq
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I cannot wait for the landing. It's the biggest event in space by man, since the Voyager missions. On top of that, it may; just may show us something of our possible origins. I can't help but be excited by Rosseta & Philae. :)

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I'm hoping you guys put a small rocket on Philae so if the landing site is boring, you can move to somewhere more interesting.

NeonsStyleHD
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I agree Alexander. And i'm going to go with myinstincts and say that, yeah, Rosetta will have no probs landing this thing at all....

theindiediary
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A bit off topic, but what is that thing he's using as a stand-in for the comet?

Dampfish
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Guys what is that blue thing with white lines behind him?

Temirkul
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WOW !!! Thanks European Space Agency, ESA Alexander Gerst 

CoachGMoore
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lol who does your dry cleaning in space lmao

andrewlawrence
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wow, talk about damage limitation What are these pathetic experiments they do up there?.

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