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Archive for September 1st, 2015

Latest Galileos closing in on launch

September 1st, 2015 by

Europe’s ninth and tenth Galileo satellites have been attached to the dispenser that will hold them during their flight up into space, then release them into their planned orbits.

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Airbus DS finishes final preparations for launch of LISA Pathfinder

September 1st, 2015 by

LISA Pathfinder, ESA’s gravitational-wave detection technology demonstrator, is ready to be shipped to Kourou in French Guiana in preparation for its launch in November. Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has completed a series of intensive tests on LISA Pathfinder’s propulsion and science modules at IABG, near Munich, to prove its space worthiness.

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