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Herschel 'Service Module' Ready For Final Integration
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 11, 2006 ESA's Herschel spacecraft is proceeding towards its industrial completion. The satellite's service module has passed its assembly and verification tests, and is now ready to move towards its final integration and test phases. The service module is the satellite platform on top of which the 'payload module' - containing the cryostat with the science instruments and the telescope - will be mounted. The Herschel satellite will carry the largest telescope mirror ever flown in space. It will operate in the infra-red and sub-millimetre wavelengths, to study the formation of stars and galaxies. After its assembly by the Alcatel Alenia Space teams in Turin, Italy, the service module successfully passed the verification phase, and is now ready to be delivered to Astrium Satellites for final satellite assembly. The complete satellite will then be submitted to environmental acceptance tests in the ESA facilities located at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), The Netherlands. The Herschel satellite is planned for launch in mid 2008, on board an Ariane-5 rocket, together with the Planck satellite, the ESA astronomy mission designed to accurately measure the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation that carries information about the early Universe. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Herschel overview Planck overview All about the technology of space and more Space Technology News - Applications and Research
Breakthrough In Magnetic Devices Could Make Computers More Powerful
Bath, UK (SPX) Dec 07, 2006Scientists have created novel 'spintronic' devices that could point the way for the next generation of more powerful and permanent data storage chips in computers. Physicist at the Universities of Bath, Bristol and Leeds have discovered a way to precisely control the pattern of magnetic fields in thin magnetic films, which can be used to store information. |
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