Agilka — Stephen Brown

In November 2014 David Hitchins was Chief of Operations for the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission which landed a scientific module on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Despite the great hopes they had for Rosetta, twenty-five years in the making, it was lost after just two days - power failure after an awkward landing being cited as the reason.
Eighteen years later, Hitchins is now Chief Scientific Officer for the ESA and stands ready to oversee the attempted touch-down of the widely criticised return mission. As the lander draws nearer to the Agilka plateau, Hitchins has to face the select gathering of scientists he has invited to come and witness this momentous event and reveal to them the true nature of this latest mission - along with what really happened to Rosetta nearly two decades ago.
Will this be the most important scientific discovery of all time, as Hitchins contends, or is the Shackleton Mission just another white elephant?
What secrets does the Agilka plateau hold?
A novella.