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Testing of the Flight Model of the Open University's MODULUS Ptolemy
experiment was completed on 14th September 2001 when the final connection
was made between Ptolemy and the Docking Station sample handling system
of the Rosetta Lander (RoLand). RoLand will make the first soft landing
on a cometary nucleus in 2012 when the Rosetta spacecraft delivers
it to comet Wirtanen. Despite the cometary landing being over a decade away, there is a tight schedule to complete the testing of RoLand at the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomie, Lindau, Germany before attachment, in November, to the Rosetta Spacecraft which will be launched in January 2003. The concept, named MODULUS (Methods Of Determining and Understanding Light elements from Unequivocal Stable isotope compositions) was named after Thomas Young, the initial translator of the Rosetta Stone, whose name is immortalised by the measure of elasticity known as Young's modulus. |
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