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The Irish Man Who Found the Philae Lander Lost on a Comet

This week on 'Futureproof The Podcast' Jonathan McCrea talks to Irish man Laurence O’ Rourke - ...

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13.31 9 Jan 2021


The Irish Man Who Found the Philae Lander Lost on a Comet



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13.31 9 Jan 2021


This week on 'Futureproof The Podcast' Jonathan McCrea talks to Irish man Laurence O’ Rourke - Senior Systems Engineer on the European Space Agency’s PLATE Mission who was called in to find the lost Philae lander as part of the Rosetta Mission.

Also joining the show to look at the main news stories from the science world is Dr Shane Bergin from UCD and Dr Jessamyn Fairfield from NUI Galway. 

 

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