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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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“When foreigners observe [Soyuz] launches, they are surprised that we carry out lift-offs at exactly the designated time. In recent years the Americans have only once carried out a shuttle launch at exactly the designated time. This was a surprising event. The whole world was talking about it. They postpone launches up to six times. It is due to the spacecraft’s features. Our system is more reliable.” — Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, according to Interfax.
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