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Herschel instrument to start operations after glitch

Submit on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 05:54

The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared, HIFI, aboard ESA’s Herschel satellite is about to start science operations. It was switched off temporarily after an anomaly was registered last year before the instrument could begin formal scientific work.

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