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SMART 1: Das große Finale

8 August 2006

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This artist's impression shows the trajectory of ESA SMART-1 spacecraft in the final phase of its mission, due to end through a small impact on the lunar surface.

After two weeks of manoeuvres started on 19 June and concluded on 2 July 2006, the impact is now set to occur on the near side and most probably at 05:41 UT (07:41 CEST) on 3 September 2006.

Credits: ESA - C. Carreau

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Octavio Camino-Ramos, SMART-1 Spacecraft Operations Manager, sits at a control station in the SMART-1 dedicated control room during a 100-hour ion-engine burn, 13 October 2004.

Credits: ESA

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Artist's impression of the SMART-1 mission

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SMART-1 is the first ESA spacecraft to use the new and more efficient three-layered triple-junction gallium-arsenide (GaAs) solar cells. They have 21% efficiency compared to the 6-12% efficiency of those commercially available previously, which were made from materials similar to the solar cells used in pocket calculators. Soon GaA-based solar cells, which are the subject of further development by ESA and European industry, could also be a very powerful source of energy for other applications on Earth as well as in space.

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SMART-1 controllers in Main Control Room

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Members of the Flight Control Team monitor SMART-1's progress in the Main Control Room, 16 November 2004 (Stephane Beauvivre, Jean-Luc Josset and Rick Blake). The MCR is located at the European Space Agency's Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.

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