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Blog break

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The Rocket Science blog will take a break between today and 5 January. During this time, there will be no new posts (well, unless anything e...

En route to nothing

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It's official! LISA Pathfinder is safely en route to a virtual point in space called the Sun-Earth Libration Point 1 (SEL1), 1.5 million...

LISA spotted!

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LISA Pathfinder seen in orbit on 8 December: ESA's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft seen in orbit 8 December 2015 at about 20:50 UT (21:50 C...

Five down, one to go

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The crucial series of six major engine burns – needed to get LISA Pathfinder to its final science orbit around L1 – continues to go well. Si...

LISA Pathfinder: Big burn burned

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Working in the Main Control Room at ESOC tonight, ESA's Rolf Maarschalkerweerd, Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager for LISA Pathfinder...

LISA Pathfinder orbit manoeuvres: so far, so good!

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Three done, three to go! These updates were sent in by LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft Operations Manager Ian Harrison Monday evening and this m...

LISA Pathfinder Burn 1 confirmed

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This update sent in this morning by LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft Operations Manager Ian Harrison at ESOC: The evaluation of this morning'...

Getting to where we want to go: LISA Pathfinder’s journey

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Today's post is contributed by Florian Renk and the Mission Analysis team at ESA's ESOC operations centre, Darmstadt. Florian did a ...

Update from Kourou tracking station

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This just in from ESA's Dieter Amend at Kourou tracking station, our 15m ground station located not too far from the Vega launch pad. In...

LISA Pathfinder launch timeline

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On Wednesday, a Vega rocket will boost LISA Pathfinder into space to pave the way to a future mission for detecting gravitational waves. Onc...

ESOC ground operations team ready for LPF

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A happy and confident Ground Operations Team ready for LISA Pathfinder launch at ESOC! L-R (seated): Daniel Firre, our LPF Ground Operations...

To catch a speeding satellite: Estrack redevelopment down under

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Editor’s note: The Estrack team at ESOC are redeveloping the network’s tracking capability in Australia. The existing tracking station at Ne...

Europe comes together for space weather

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Working with scientists in 14 countries across Europe, ESA is developing a warning network that will help protect us from the effects of our...

ESA sponsors WT1190F observations

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Editor's note: We received word late this afternoon that ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Programme office will sponsor a Eur...

Spotting the Halloween asteroid

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Details on how backyard astronomers in W. Europe, with clear skies, a telescope and a bit of luck, can spot asteroid 2015 TB145 on 31 Octobe...

Assigning the ‘WTF’ to WT1190F

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We contacted Eric Christensen, Principal Investigator at the Catalina Sky Survey , which discovered object WT1190F , and he provided some ex...

Will WT1190F reentry be visible?

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A number of questions have come into ESA's NEO Coord Centre, ESRIN, Italy, concerning the forecast reentry on 13 November of an unknown ...

WT1190F: what’s in a name?

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ESA's Space Situational Awareness programme supports Europe's independent utilisation of, and access to, space. More via http://www...

First-time gathering under Big Iron

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As part of the events celebrating 40 years of Estrack, several days of workshops are being held at Cebreros station, Spain, this week. Yest...

Galileo 9 & 10 handover complete

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The Galileo 9/10 LEOP at ESOC is complete! On 20 September at 18:22 CEST, the joint ESA/CNES team at ESOC confirmed that handover of Galile...