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Report for period 23 June to 23 August 2010

Mission operations of the Herschel space observatory continued nominally during the reporting period, with the spacecraft and subsystems all performing as expected. The first Open Time (OT1) Call for non Key Programme observing proposals closed on 22 July 2010. A total of 576 proposals were received.

Report for Period 18 July to 14 August 2010 (week 29 - week 32)

The reporting period, covering four weeks of Venus Express mission operations, was devoted to routine science activities. On 21 July the spacecraft entered a new quadrature phase that will last until 26 August. On 28 July a few anomalies were observed relating to the solid state mass memory (SSMM), which were solved by a warm restart of the SSMM. As part of the SSMM anomaly recovery a spacecraft safe mode was commanded on 30 July. After exit from the safe mode nominal operations were resumed. On 30 July another eclipse season started.

Report for the period 11 July to 30 July 2010

This report covers 20 days of Rosetta mission operations. Payload operations associated with the flyby of asteroid Lutetia were completed on 11 July and the last three weeks have been mainly dedicated to downlinking the large volume of science data acquired. All the data have now been downlinked. The spacecraft is now cruising towards the aphelion of its current orbit, which will be reached in October 2012. Work to reconstruct the relative trajectory of the flyby is continuing.