Warwick Holmes - the Rosetta Mission's Aussie Avionics System Engineer

Published: Jan. 21, 2017, 11:26 a.m.

We rarely get to hear "insider's" \xa0stories of extraterrestrial discovery. Doctor Karl meets Warwick Holmes - avionics systems engineer on the Rosetta mission that orbited comet seeking the chemical signatures of life. He gives us a blow by blow account of extraterrestrial exploration in the 21st Century. How do you test hardware to fly by the sun and withstand comet dust. How does\xa0a lad from South Australia land the best job on earth ? Beam us up Warwick !