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ESA’s Rosetta comet-chaser goes LEGO®

22 September 2010

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"We love Rosetta, we love LEGO," yelled the 12 students of aerospace eengineering of the University of Rome and three students of the European Institute of Design at the end of the event.

Credits: ESA/L. van Zanten

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Holger Sierks, Max Planck Institute, Lindau Germany, one of the principal investigators of Rosetta (left) and Detlef Koschny, ESA space scientist (right), watch how aerospace engineering students go about building the landing gear feet of Rosetta’s lander.

Credits: ESA/L. Giacomini

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Impressive results in a short time: the landing gear of ESA’s Rosetta lander (left) and the body of the lander with several of its instruments already in place (right), and movements programmed in the computer.

Credits: ESA/M. Roos

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