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Flight Operations and Lessons Learned of the Rosetta Alice Ultraviolet Spectrograph

Parker, Joel Wm.; Steffl, Andrew J.; Alan Stern, S. +5 more

Rotational Motion of the Spacecraft Philae During Landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Baranyai, Tamás; Várkonyi, Péter L.; Balázs, András

Experimental Investigations of the Comet Lander Philae Touchdown Dynamics

Ulamec, Stephan; Biele, Jens; Roll, Reinhard +5 more

The comet lander Philae (as part of Europe's Rosetta mission) is en route to its target, 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. With landing operations coming up at the end of 2014, a partial retesting of the Philae lander's touchdown system was carried out in spring of 2013. Intensive testing was performed as part of Philae's design and verification program…