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Report for Period 8 May to 21 May 2010This report covers two weeks of Rosetta mission operations. The final activities of the active payload check-out 12 (PC12) were successfully conducted according to plan. The last spacecraft activities in preparation of the Lutetia flyby campaign were also completed.
Published: 26 May 2010
Report for period 22 April to 18 May 2010Mission operations of the Herschel space observatory continued nominally during the reporting period, with the spacecraft and subsystems all performing as expected. Friday, 14 May 2010, marked the first anniversary of Herschel's launch.
Published: 21 May 2010
Report for Period 1 May to 7 May 2010The reporting period covers the third week of the active payload check-out 12 (PC12) for Rosetta. All the planned PC12 activities were successfully conducted according to plan.
Published: 12 May 2010
Report for Period 24 April to 30 April 2010The reporting period covers the second week of the active payload check-out 12 (PC12) for Rosetta. All the planned PC12 activities were successfully conducted according to plan.
Published: 5 May 2010
Report for Period 28 March to 24 April 2010 (week 13 - week 16)The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during the reporting period. The atmospheric drag experiment (ADE) campaign #3b was performed from 11 to 16 April. Several solar array tilt experiments were carried out around the pericentre on 3 April and on the last...
Published: 4 May 2010
Report for Period 17 April to 23 April 2010The reporting period covers one week of Rosetta mission operations and saw the start of the spacecraft check-out 11 and the active payload check-out 12 (PC12).
Published: 28 April 2010
Report for period 21 March to 21 April 2010Mission operations of the Herschel space observatory continued nominally during the reporting period, with the spacecraft and subsystems all performing as expected.
Published: 26 April 2010
Report for Period 27 March to 16 April 2010The reporting period covers three weeks of Rosetta mission operations. Few instrument tests were performed in preparation of the active payload check-out (PC12), which will start in the next reporting period. The MIRO instrument was activated on 6 April for a validation of new on-board control...
Published: 21 April 2010
Main events and ActivitiesOn 3 March, Mars Express performed the closest ever flyby of Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons. The spacecraft passed Phobos at an altitude of about 67 kilometres. The flyby was part of the Phobos flyby campaign, which started on 16 February and concluded on 26 March. The campaign, with a total of twelve...
Published: 8 April 2010
Report for Period 28 February to 27 March 2010 (week 9 - week 12)The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during the reporting period. The atmospheric drag experiment (ADE) campaign #3a concluded on 28 February. On 20 March the regular DDOR measurements were performed. A solar array tilt experiment was carried out on 25...
Published: 7 April 2010
Report for Period 27 February to 26 March 2010The reporting period covers four weeks of Rosetta mission operations. These were dedicated to further payload maintenance activities and a rehearsal of the flyby of asteroid Lutetia. The rehearsal of the asteroid flyby dynamics went very smoothly and gives good confidence in the spacecraft behaviour...
Published: 6 April 2010
Report for period 19 February to 21 March 2010Mission operations of the Herschel space observatory continued nominally during the reporting period, with the spacecraft and subsystems all performing as expected.
Published: 25 March 2010
Report for Period 31 January to 27 February 2010 (week 5 - week 8)The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during the reporting period. Two solar array tilting tests were successfully performed on 15 and 25 February. These were set up to validate a special solar array orientation for future atmospheric drag experiments....
Published: 9 March 2010
Main events and ActivitiesThe Phobos flyby campaign has started. The campaign's first flyby was on 16 February when Mars Express passed the Martian moon at an altitude of 991 km. Three more Phobos flybys were completed within the following 12 days at increasingly smaller altitudes. The campaign continues with eight more flybys planned in March,...
Published: 5 March 2010
Report for Period 13 February to 26 February 2010The reporting period covers two weeks of Rosetta mission operations. This period was dedicated to further payload maintenance activities in preparation of the upcoming mission phases and the 12th payload check-out, which is planned for April-May 2010. The RTOF, the time of flight sensor, one of...
Published: 3 March 2010
Report for period 22 January to 19 February 2010Mission operations of the Herschel space observatory continued nominally during the reporting period, with the spacecraft and subsystems all performing as expected.
Published: 24 February 2010
Report for Period 30 January to 12 February 2010After the successful test of the deep space hibernation mode (DSHM), which was covered in the previous reporting period, spacecraft maintenance activities have resumed as planned. Reaction wheel B was re-lubricated on DoY 034, with a run-in phase that lasted till DoY 042. It was subsequently added...
Published: 18 February 2010
Report for Period 3 January to 30 January 2010 (week 1 - week 4)The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during the reporting period. The solar conjunction operations phase that had started on 29 December 2009 in the previous reporting period was concluded on 22 January 2010. During this phase all instruments were off....
Published: 9 February 2010
Main events and ActivitiesThis report covers two months of Mars Express mission operations, from 1 December 2009 to 1 February 2010. The eighth Mars Express occultation season, which started already on 20 September 2009, and the eighth Mars Express eclipse season, which started 10 November 2009, both are ongoing. On 29 January Mars was at...
Published: 5 February 2010
Report for Period 16 January to 29 January 2010The reporting period covers two weeks, which were fully dedicated to the test of the deep space hibernation mode (DSHM) for Rosetta. This is the hibernation mode in which the spacecraft will operate from June 2011 till January 2014 on its last long stretch of passive cruise to comet...
Published: 3 February 2010
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