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Friday, November 28, 2014

How Rosetta comet technology will protect Royal Navy sailors

Successor class SSBNSpace technology developed on the Rosetta comet mission is coming back to Earth and will be used to protect Royal Navy submariners.

Processes used by the Philae lander to analyse gases on comet 69P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will be incorporated into equipment that monitors the air quality on board the next generation of Britain’s nuclear-powered submarines.

Scientists from the Open University helped create the Ptolemy gas analyser used to examine the make-up of the comet, creating a device the size of a shoebox and weighing just 5kg that had the same analytical power as instruments that would normally take up two rooms on Earth.

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