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Planck first light yields promising results
 
17 September 2009   Preliminary results from ESA’s Planck mission to study the early Universe indicate that the data quality is excellent. This bodes well for the full sky survey that has just begun.
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Herschel and Planck
Herschel and Planck pass in-orbit 'exam'
 
24 July 2009   Herschel and Planck have both passed an important 'exam' they were to take before they could go about doing what space telescopes and observatories do.
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Coolest spacecraft ever in orbit around L2
 
3 July 2009   Last night, the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft has also just entered its final orbit around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, L2.
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5 June 2009   Planck satellite manoeuvre aims at L2 arrival
21 May 2009   Herschel and Planck commissioning has begun
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15 May 2009   Watch Herschel-Planck launch 14 May 2009 15:12 CEST (replay)
15 May 2009   Herschel and Planck: Near-perfect injection by Ariane


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