BAE’s smartphone-like Rosetta space probe is attempting to land on comet ‘67P’, and the technology that enabled this is revealed.
At BAE’s Advanced Technology Centre in Great Baddow, Essex, a team of engineers have developed a ‘smartphone’ like system which enables the European Space Agency to communicate with, and control the movements of, the probe moving at speeds of up to 55,000kms an hour and, currently, more than 500 million kilometres away. [breakout size =…
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