The mirror of the Herschel telescope has now been assembled with the payload and service module, completing the spacecraft structure - an important milestone in the days following through to launch.
The Herschel spacecraft is now undergoing a series of mechanical tests at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC. The tests are carried out to ensure that the spacecraft can ...
ESA’s Herschel and Planck missions that will study the formation of stars and galaxies and the relic radiation from the Big Bang, respectively, have successfully completed their test campaigns in ...
... shipped from Liège, Belgium, to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 18 February. The spacecraft is scheduled to be launched in tandem with ESA’s Herschel infrared observatory on 16 April.
Herschel, ESA’s infrared space observatory, and Planck, ESA’s mission that will look back to the very dawn of time, are scheduled for launch on 16 April 2009 from ESA’s Spaceport in Kourou, French ...
Following Herschel’s arrival at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the spacecraft has been unpacked and inspected. After an initial visual inspection, the telescope mirror, the largest ever ...
In order to carry out additional checks on the ground segment of the Herschel and Planck programmes, Arianespace and ESA have jointly agreed to postpone the launch initially planned for next April 16. ...
PARIS, March 18 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says it has postponed the Herschel and Planck spacecraft launch that was initially planned for April 16.
... allow ESA and Arianespace to carry out a final and independent check of the safety margins. Therefore, the final decision on the date of the Herschel and Planck launch will be postponed by a few days.
With the additional checks related to the flight worthiness of the Herschel telescope now completed, ESA and Arianespace have set the launch date of Herschel and Planck for 6 May 2009.
PARIS, April 20 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency says it has again postponed the joint launch of its Herschel and Planck spacecraft.
About two weeks ago, Herschel was weighed to record its dry mass before the satellite was fuelled with 256 kg of liquid hydrazine. After switching it on to confirm normal function, engineers ...
Now that additional checks on the Ariane 5 ECA launcher have been completed, Arianespace and ESA have set the launch date of Herschel and Planck for Thursday 14 May.
Two missions to study the cosmos, Herschel and Planck, are scheduled to blast into space May 14 aboard the same Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
Herschel set to probe universe in previously unseen portions of the infrared.
