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The Science Programme Committee at its meeting on 23 February 2007 has unanimously approved an extension of the Mars Express mission operations, pushing back the mission end date to early-May 2009.
Published: 28 February 2007
The BepiColombo mission, comprising two orbiters to explore the planet Mercury, has received final approval from the Science Programme Committee to enter its implementation phase
Published: 26 February 2007
At 02:57 UT 25 February, mission controllers at ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre in Germany, confirmed Rosetta's successful swingby of Mars.
Published: 25 February 2007
Observations of SN 1987A, made over the past 20 years by Hubble and many other major ground- and space-based telescopes, have significantly changed astronomers' views of how massive stars end their lives
Published: 23 February 2007
The Rosetta swing-by of Mars is the second gravity assist manoeuvre required to place Rosetta on course for comet 67P/Churyumov -Gerasimenko. The closest approach of the swing-by will take place at 01:54 UT, 25 February 2007.
Published: 23 February 2007
During a close flyby of Titan on 22 February 2007, Cassini's radar observations focus on the moon's north pole region, where lakes have been spotted. The imaged area crosses radar swaths from several earlier flybys.
Published: 21 February 2007
With the Sun currently close to a minimum in its 11-year cycle of activity, Ulysses has detected remarkably energetic outbursts during the mission's third pass over the Sun's south polar region.
Published: 19 February 2007
This view of planetary nebula NGC 2440 was obtained on 6 February 2007 with the WFPC2 instrument onboard the Hubble Space Telescope using several filters to capture different chemical elements in the expelled gas.
Published: 13 February 2007
Data obtained with the High-Resolution Stereo Camera on board Mars Express has been used to produce new topographic maps of the Iani Chaos region with contour levels superimposed onto high-resolution images of the region.
Published: 13 February 2007
The Cluster spacecraft have made in-situ observations of the difference between two mechanisms that both produce aurorae by accelerating electrons in electrical circuits directly above the visible light arcs
Published: 9 February 2007
Construction of the 18 mirror segment blanks of the James Webb Space Telescope has been completed by Axsys Technologies Inc., Alabama, USA. They have been shipped for grinding and polishing, after which they will be assembled to form the 6.6m-diameter primary mirror of JWST.
Published: 8 February 2007
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, Ulysses reached its maximum solar latitude of 80 degrees as it passed over the Sun's south pole, observing this extreme region for the third time in its more than 16 years of successful operations.
Published: 7 February 2007
The first flight units for the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft are soon to be delivered with final testing of the three Digital Sun Sensors nearing completion
Published: 1 February 2007
A problem with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope is under investigation and currently limits science operations to the observatory's remaining instruments.
Published: 30 January 2007
On 29 January, at 7:16 UT, Cassini will perform the 24th set of Titan observations during a close flyby of the moon during which it comes to within 2631 kilometres from the moon's surface.
Published: 26 January 2007
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Published: 17 January 2007
Having passed its perihelion on 12 January, Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) is the brightest comet ever observed by SOHO and indeed the brightest comet in the sky in the past 40 years
Published: 16 January 2007
Published: 11 January 2007
The first test article of the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, the Development Model (DM) of the On Board Computer (OBC) has arrived at the prime contractor facilities of Astrium Ltd, Stevenage, UK in the last week of December 2006.
Published: 9 January 2007
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