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Herschel switched off

Submit on Monday, June 17th, 2013 22:56

With the exhaustion of its helium coolant, Herschel’s science mission ended on 29 April. But the satellite continued providing value to the end, serving as an orbiting testbed for control techniques that can’t normally be tested in flight.

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