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  1. This means that Herschel's daily communications window will jump forward from mid-evening to mid-afternoon. 6:53 AM Dec 2nd from web
  2. On December 10th, Herschel & Planck effectively "flip" in their orbits, so Herschel wil become visible to the Ground Station first. 6:47 AM Dec 2nd from web
  3. Will Herschel's potential succesor make the ESA cut? The 6 missions vying for 2 spots. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8389906.stm 5:37 AM Dec 2nd from web
  4. The HIFI team have run a lot of simultations on their Flight Spare and are very optimistic that everything will work as expected. 2:26 AM Dec 2nd from web
  5. 5 hours of time have been reserved with the Cebreros Ground Station for a upload of patched software and general health checks. 2:25 AM Dec 2nd from web
  6. HIFI's electronics will be allowed to warm for 24h before the detailed activities start on the evening od December 7th around 20:00UT. 2:24 AM Dec 2nd from web
  7. It is now confirmed that HIFI switch-on activities will start on December 6th with a power-on. This will take about 5 minutes. 2:23 AM Dec 2nd from web
  8. Watch out for some spectacular images after the pre-Christmas workshop. 8:29 AM Dec 1st from web
  9. Herschel is getting up to speed in other ways too. The number of Helpdesk tickets from users per week rose nearly 20-fold in the last month. 7:41 AM Dec 1st from web
  10. Herschel is now communicating with Cebreros Ground Station near Madrid, but New Norcia was Hershel's prime antenna for the early mission. 7:32 AM Dec 1st from web
  11. RT @esaops: Deep space maintenance deep in Australia's bush: ESA experts in hot outback of New Norcia, Australia http://bit.ly/5xWutX 7:30 AM Dec 1st from web
  12. With 11665 observations already approved by Herschel's Time Allocation Panel, we have enough to keep Herschel busy for more than a year. 3:34 AM Dec 1st from web
  13. Every working day a batch of observations, processed and Quality Controlled, is being passed to the astronomers who have requested them. 3:31 AM Dec 1st from web
  14. Amazing as it seems, we are now past Day 200 of the mission. Herschel is now in Operational Day 201! Things are getting increasingly routine 3:30 AM Dec 1st from web
  15. HIFI will do a simple power on and complete health check preparatory to a resumption of observations in January. 3:28 AM Dec 1st from web
  16. Everything is GO for a HIFI switch-on on the evening of December 7th unless there are any last minute issues. 3:26 AM Dec 1st from web
  17. As the HIFI spectrum of Comet Garradd shows, even early in the mission it was taking some amazing data. 7:53 AM Nov 30th from web
  18. Cometary water. Herschel image of the Day: http://www.observadores-cometas.com/Herschel/Image_of_the_day/FirstSpectro_HIFI_CometGarradd.jpg 7:27 AM Nov 30th from web
  19. HIFI has a further review of switch-on plans today. Unless unexpected issues are found everything should be go for a December 7th switch-on. 2:21 AM Nov 30th from web
  20. The idea is to fit everything together from a pool of candidate observations for each day so that no time is wasted. 12:36 AM Nov 30th from web
  • Name ESA Herschel
  • Location ESAC, Madrid
  • Web http://www.esa.in...
  • Bio A European Space Agency (ESA) mission which will be the most sensitive far-infrared telescope ever put into space.
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