• Question: what was the hardest project you worked on and how long did it take you

    Asked by tcush315 to Aisling, Colin, Laurence, Ned, Niamh on 9 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Laurence O'Rourke

      Laurence O'Rourke answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      My hardest project was working on the Philae landing preparation and the landing itself. I did a few all nighters to study the commands to be sent to the lander during its descent to make sure there was no mistakes. For the landing itself it was 7 days of 20 hours each. Very hard but really really great experience.

    • Photo: Aisling Shannon

      Aisling Shannon answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      During the project I am on now, I went to Japan for testing of their part of the spacecraft. That was really difficult, three weeks of long hours (6 days a week) with really bad jetlag and of course trying to understand how our Japanese colleagues were doing things, which is quite different to how we do the tests in Europe. But as is often the way, the toughest challenges are also the most amazing too.

    • Photo: Ned Dwyer

      Ned Dwyer answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Well I was teaching about how to use satellite images to map areas of rice in Soeul in Korea. we were using Korean computers with everything in Korean the hard disks were not big enough and they would not allow us to access individual computers. So it was a lot of work to get everything ready and teach the course and make sure everything worked so we had to work long days. They were very excited to see they could spy on North Korea with the images we were using. It was only later we discovered we had been teaching the Korean CIA!!

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