[FPSPACE] FW: Latest from ESA Science and Technology web site

[LARRY KLAES]

>From: SciTech.editorial at esa.int
>To: ljk4 at msn.com
>Subject: Latest from ESA Science and Technology web site
>Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:24:35 +0100 (CET)
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>Review of 2005
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>2005 was another extraordinary year for the Science Programme from the 
>deployment of Huygens probe in January to the launch of Venus Express in 
>November.
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>http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=38474
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>Installation of the Herschel Sunshield onto Payload Module
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>Currently at the European Space Research And Technology Centre (ESTEC), 
>Noordwijk, The Netherlands, the assembly of the Herschel Structural and 
>Thermal Qualification model satellite is nearing completion with its two 
>main modules, the payload module and the service module, already mated 
>together.
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>http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=38487
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>Cluster helps to protect astronauts and satellites against killer electrons
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>Over the past five years, a series of discoveries by the multi-spacecraft 
>Cluster mission have significantly enhanced our knowledge of how, where and 
>under which conditions killer electrons are created in the Earth's 
>magnetospheric environment. During intense magnetic storms (driven by 
>enhanced solar activity) highly energetic electrons (the so-called killer 
>electrons) are often responsible for permanently damaging satellites and 
>pose a serious hazard to astronauts.
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>http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=38475
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>Venus Express - End of Near Earth Commissioning Phase
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>During the reporting period the last activities of the Near Earth 
>Commissioning have been completed according to the plan. Two slots with the 
>New Norcia ground station have been dedicated to test the performance of 
>the TTC subsystem and of the Ultra Stable Oscillator (USO) for the radio 
>science experiment (VeRA). In both occasions problems in operating the 
>ground station equipment have affected the test.
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