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Dec 10 |
XMM-Newton 20th Anniversary10 Dec XMM-Newton was launched the 10 December 1999,on the first Ariane-5 commercial mission, from ESA’s Kourou Spaceport in French Guiana. ESA's XMM-Newton space observatory is the flagship of European X-ray astronomy. It is the most powerful X-ray telescope ever placed in orbit and is observing the 'hot' X-ray universe including objects like neutron stars, black holes and active galaxies. More information here |
Dec 18 |
CHEOPS Launch18 Dec CHEOPS - CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite - is the first mission dedicated to searching for exoplanetary transits by performing ultra-high precision photometry on bright stars already known to host planets. Date of launch: mid-December 2019 tbc Location: CSG, Europe’s Spaceport (French Guiana) Website here |