Radio contact re-established with XMM-Newton23 Oct 2008 XMM-Newton, ESA's X-ray observatory, has re-established communication contact with Earth, showing that the spacecraft is safe and fully under control. The news was confirmed this morning by the mission control team at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
Radio contact was re-established on Wednesday 22 October around 16:00 UT. This followed an unexpected radio silence from the spacecraft which started on Saturday 18 October 2008 when XMM-Newton, coming out of a nominal period of non-radio visibility along its orbit around Earth, did not succeed in sending the expected signal to Earth. For the full story see the ESA portal release at
Last Update: 24 Oct 2008
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