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| | 2009: Top 10 news features in ESA Operations 2009's top 10 Operations-related news reports, by page views. From tense GO/NO-GO roll calls in Darmstadt's Main Control Room to boosting Earth-Mars communication and operating tracking stations worldwide, it was an incredible year for the Agency's 'Ops' team.
And the No. 1 article for 2009?
New concept may enhance Earth-Mars communication
16 October 2009 - scroll down for link
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| | | | ESA spacecraft may help unravel cosmic mystery
When Europe's comet chaser Rosetta swings by Earth tomorrow for a critical gravity assist, tracking data will be collected to precisely measure the satellite's change in orbital energy. The results could help unravel a cosmic mystery that has stumped scientists for two decades.
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| | | | New concept may enhance Earth-Mars communication
Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An ESA engineer working with engineers in the UK may have found a solution using a new type of orbit combined with continuous-thrust ion propulsion.
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| | | | European experts operate Apollo tracking network
In 1969, Valeriano Claros-Guerra was one of a new generation of Spanish engineers trained by NASA to operate the tracking stations supporting Apollo. For the first moonwalk, he helped ensure that Houston controllers could communicate with the astronauts on the Moon.
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| | | | Ulysses: 12 extra months of valuable science
In 2008, Ulysses was expected to cease functioning due to weakening power. But solid engineering know-how and on-the-fly innovation have eked out an additional year of important science returns, which came to an end today.
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| | | | ESA to build its third deep space ground station in Argentina
On 22 June, ESA informed Argentine authorities that an area 30 km south of the town of Malargüe in Mendoza province, about 1000 km west of Buenos Aires, has been chosen as the best option to build a new 35-metre antenna in support of its programmes.
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| | | | ESA's Herschel calls home using mobile phone technology
For the first time in spaceflight history, a satellite has used mobile phone technology to radio back to Earth. The transmission took place on 16 May when Herschel used the same technology as used in GSM mobile phone networks to send test data to ESA's deep space tracking station at New Norcia, Australia.
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| | | | ESOC confirms: 'GO' for launch
MP3 audio recording of ESA/ESOC Flight Operations Director John Dodsworth initiating the 'GO/NO-GO' roll call in the Main Control Room at the European Space Operations Centre. The roll call confirms that all supporting teams at ESOC are ready for Herschel-Planck launch.
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| | | | ESA teams in Germany, Russia in last GOCE rehearsal
A selection of images taken at ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, and at the ESA support room at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, during the final rehearsal for GOCE launch, Friday, 13 March, 2009.
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