Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2
Submit on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 05:57
Last night, the detectors of Planck’s High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of 0.1 K, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2.
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