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 Animation |
- Caption:
Herschel separation- Credits:
- ESA (animation by AOES Medialab)
- ID number:
- SEMGY6ZVNUF
- HI-RES MP4 size:
- 3 830 kb
- HI-RES MOV size:
- 69 800 kb
- Related Animations:
- Astronomy techniques
- Herschel
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- Description
Herschel will separate from the upper stage of the Ariane 5 about 30 minutes after launch. Planck will follow a couple of minutes later. The satellites will then head towards their respective orbits around the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system (L2), some 1.5 million km from Earth in the direction opposite to the Sun. It will take about 60 days for both satellites to enter their operational orbits.
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