The Rosetta Mission: Outstanding Engineering Achievement

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Thursday, 04 June 2015
13:4 - 13:4
Duration: 28 mins
Publication date: 25 Jun 2015
Location: NA, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Part of event The Engineer Design & Innovation Show

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4th June 2015

13.00pm - Ian Costello, Deputy Engineering Manager, Airbus Space & Defence

Advanced Manufacturing Show, brought to you by MWP, will showcase world-class advanced manufacturing technologies by delivering a committed audience of production professionals looking to benchmark the best advanced technologies on the market and make investment and purchasing decisions.

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defence

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space

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Ian Costello

Airbus Defence & Space, Deputy Engineering Manager

Ian Costello was Deputy Engineering Manager on the Rosetta mission, leading the design and procurement teams on the European Space Agency (ESA) science mission built in Stevenage. Following that he was the Lead Mechanical, Thermal Propulsion Engineer on Aeolus, the ESA Earth observation satellite that will measure wind speeds across the globe. He was also Engineering Manager for the platforms for the Swarm satellites, an ESA mission currently measuring the Earth’s magnetic field more accurately than ever before. He also has more than 10 years’ experience on telecommunication satellites as a mechanical systems engineer. He is currently working on Solar Orbiter, ESA’s mission to study the Sun which is due to launch in 2017. He graduated with First Class Honours in Engineering from Sheffield City Polytechnic.

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