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![]() | ESA Herschel | ESAC, Madrid | 2009-02-27 | ![]() |
| @ESAHerschel | 1,573 days | |||
| A European Space Agency (ESA) mission. Both the most sensitive far-infrared telescope ever put into space &, at 3.5m, the largest space telescope of any kind. | ||||
| Followers | Following | Tweets | Lists | Favorites |
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| 18,342 | 16 | 2,027 | 1,181 | 3 |
![]() | ESA Herschel @ESAHerschel | ||
| The colours of space. Nice images from @Planck in this BBC video: bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…. @ESAHerschel is off, but @Planck continues. | |||
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![]() | ESA Herschel @ESAHerschel |
| In the video (youtube.com/watch?v=kr4g1e…) you see a brief flash of the plot of the transponder signal dropping rapidly to zero on the big screen | |
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| Here is the official @esaoperations video of the last command being sent to @ESAHerschel: youtube.com/watch?v=kr4g1e… | |||
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| Last telemetry on the SPACON screen. The right screen shows the thruster pressure dropping off, the left, the silence pic.twitter.com/0kvtRx6pX2 | |||
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| Last telemetry on the SPACON screen. The right screen shows the thruster pressure dropping off, the left, the silence pic.twitter.com/VaNVEWsbsO | |||
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| This image shows the screen with the plot of the signal from Herschel showing the flat line of a now silent satellite pic.twitter.com/6JBRNOCB9N | |||
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| When telemetry indicated that the thrusters had run out of fuel, the command to switch of the transponder was sent & Herschel fell silent | |||
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| Here is the BBC story on the end of the Herschel mission: bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… | |||
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![]() | ESA Herschel @ESAHerschel |
| Herschel Project Scientist Göran Pilbratt & Spacecraft Operations Manager, Micha Schmidt watch over SPACON's shoulder spaceinimages.esa.int/var/esa/storag… | |
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![]() | ESA Herschel @ESAHerschel | ||
| The image of Martin Kessler, mouse in hand, about to send the command to switch off @ESAHerschel's transponder: spaceinimages.esa.int/var/esa/storag… | |||
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| If you missed the news of the @ESAHerschel switchoff yesterday, here is the ESA story: esa.int/Our_Activities… on the events at Darmstadt. | |
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| Until then there are years of recording and documenting Herschel knowledge so that it will not be lost as team members move on. | |||
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| Lights out on the post-Operations phase of the Herschel mission is not until the end of 2017. | |||
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| Four and a half years of post-Operations remain consolidating the @ESAHerschel data archive and then many years exploiting it to the full. | |||
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| The end of a historic mission. Some time after 1300CEST the @ESAHerschel mission will finally end, but not the science. Years of work still. | |||
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| Just one Daily Telecommunications Period to go for @ESAHerschel. On Monday the controllers at Darmstadt will make contact for the last time. | |||
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| The team at Darmstadt have been absolutely brilliant. A lot of the success of the mission is down to them. | |||
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| Many thanks to the @esaoperations team at Darmstadt from @ESAHerschel for an outstanding mission these 4 years 1 month and a few days, | |||
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| @ESAHerschel moves into its final weekend of operations.Once the fuel tanks are empty on Monday it will be switched off. | |||
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| Here's the NASA version of the story of the Milky Way's previously unseen cold gas: nasa.gov/mission_pages/… | |||
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| Date | Followers | Following | Tweets | Avg daily total | New followers | New following | New tweets | Avg daily month | Follow rank | Tweet rank |
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| 2013-06-19 | 18,342 | 16 | 2,027 | 1.3 | 568 | 0 | 26 | 1.4 | 766 | 16,575 |
| 2013-05-31 | 17,774 | 16 | 2,001 | 1.3 | 997 | 0 | 31 | 1.0 | 766 | 16,575 |
| 2013-04-30 | 16,777 | 16 | 1,970 | 1.3 | 728 | 0 | 33 | 1.1 | 768 | 16,657 |
| 2013-03-31 | 16,049 | 16 | 1,937 | 1.3 | 782 | 1 | 32 | 1.0 | 762 | 15,938 |
| 2013-02-28 | 15,267 | 15 | 1,905 | 1.3 | 697 | 0 | 2 | 0.1 | 757 | 14,951 |
| 2013-01-31 | 14,570 | 15 | 1,903 | 1.3 | 756 | 0 | 35 | 0.6 | 743 | 14,282 |
| 2012-11-30 | 13,814 | 15 | 1,868 | 1.4 | 289 | 0 | 4 | 0.1 | 684 | 12,306 |
| 2012-10-31 | 13,525 | 15 | 1,864 | 1.4 | 1,511 | 0 | 13 | 0.2 | 637 | 10,804 |
| 2012-08-31 | 12,014 | 15 | 1,851 | 1.4 | 626 | 0 | 3 | 0.1 | 646 | 10,787 |
| 2012-07-31 | 11,388 | 15 | 1,848 | 1.5 | - | - | - | - | 659 | 9,769 |
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