After costing 1.59 billion dollars, and travelling 3.5 billion miles over the course of a decade, looping around the solar system several times, passing by Earth and Mars so that it could use the planets gravity as a slingshot; Rosetta caught up with and orbited a comet. If that wasnt enough of an engineering marvel, the most staggering accomplishment was to put the Philae lander down on the comet. But Philae relied on Solar power instead of Nuclear batteries. Philae landed in an area with not enough light, and just over 60 hours later Philae died, without completing its studies. Recap: 1.59 billion dollars, 3.5 billion miles, 10 years; down the drain due to solar power: #Massivefail
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:35:52 +0000
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