Scientists at the University of Arizona are learning from the problems of the Philae probe that landed on a comet earlier this month.
The Philae probe touched down on Churyumov-Gerasimenko earlier this month. However, since then it has had some technical issues. There have been hardware failures, landing problems and placement issues and most recently it lost power.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will bring back a piece of the asteroid to study back on earth by 2023.
“We will have a briefing with them early next year to understand their site selection process," said Dante Lauretta, the lead scientist in the $1.05 billion dollar mission. And their flight dynamics operations and we do look at their successes as well as some of the anomalies they encountered.”
Lauretta says his team is working on ensuring reliability of the hardware. OSIRIS-REx is being built now and is set to launch in 2016 from the Kennedy Space Center.
