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Planck 'touch-up' manoeuvre complete

18 June 2009

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This artist's concept shows the path of Planck to its operational orbit around the second Lagrangian point in space (L2), 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth.

Credits: ESA - C. Carreau

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Matthias Mück, a mathematician, working in the Flight Dynamics Room at ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, during a practise for the dual Herschel-Planck launch, scheduled for 14 May 2009.

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L2, the second Lagrangian Point