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Thierry Van Driessche Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3083 Credit: 150,096 RAC: 0 |
European Space Agency -- On the way to its final destination, Titan, ESA's Huygens atmospheric probe underwent an important health check-up yesterday. The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft entered orbit around Saturn on 1 July, crossing twice the planet's rings. The data collected yesterday at ESA's European Space Operations Centre show that this delicate and risky manoeuvre proved harmless for all instruments on board and mission control specialists gave Huygens a perfect bill of health. During its long journey with Cassini, starting on 15 October 1997, the proper working of the Huygens probe and of its scientific instruments has been regularly verified, fourteen times to be precise. Check-out number 13, the last before arriving at Saturn, was executed in March and showed that all systems were performing as expected. You can read the rest of the story here. Greetings from Belgium. |
Guido_A_Waldenmeier_ Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 482 Credit: 4,774 RAC: 0 |
real good news Thierry!!! [/url] [/url] |
Mjöllnir Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 46 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 |
thank thierry. GAW |
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