MUPUS penetrator to contribute in Rosetta mission

The Space Research Centre at the Polish Academy of Sciences has had a hand in the Rosetta mission which recently landed the Philae robotic lander on comet 67P. Engineer Jerzy Grygorczuk is responsible for building the MUPUS Multi-Purpose Sensor for Surface and Subsurface Science which will measure the temperature and analyze the structure and surface of the comet. Director of SRC PAS Marek Banaszkiewicz said that, "despite tests, many things could go amiss. We don't know how hard the surface is." Banaszkiewcz is also the programmer behind the MUPUS. The MUPUS penetrator will have begun its work on the comet at 20:00 on Thursday, November 13. The entire mission started 21 years ago and the spacecraft was launched into space 10 years ago.