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Archive for January 23rd, 2015

Inmarsat-5 F2 satellite launch preparations underway

January 23rd, 2015 by

Preparations for the launch of the second Global Xpress satellite, Inmarsat-5 F2 (I-5 F2), are now at an advanced stage at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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Manoeuvre delays MESSENGER’s impact, extends orbital operations

January 23rd, 2015 by

MESSENGER mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) successfully conducted a manoeuvre designed to raise the spacecraft’s minimum altitude sufficiently to extend orbital operations and delay the probe’s inevitable impact onto Mercury’s surface until early next spring.

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Second instrument integrated with NOAA’s JPSS-1 spacecraft

January 23rd, 2015 by

The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite-Nadir (OMPS-N) instrument has been successfully integrated with the JPSS-1 spacecraft, NOAA announced. OMPS is the second JPSS-1 instrument to be integrated after the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) was installed last month.

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Meteosat-7 becomes EUMETSAT longest-serving operational satellite

January 23rd, 2015 by

On 24 January 2015, Meteosat-7 becomes the longest-serving operational satellite in EUMETSAT history, clocking up 17 years of monitoring the weather from space.

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