Celebrating ten years of Integral science
15-10-2012 02:43 PM CEST
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This week, ESA’s Integral space observatory celebrates ten years since launch on 17 October 2002. To mark the occasion, we present a slideshow of artist’s impressions depicting some of Integral’s most important discoveries.
Integral, short for International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, is equipped with two gamma-ray telescopes, an X-ray monitor and an optical camera. All four of Integral’s instruments point simultaneously at the same region of the sky to make complementary observations of high-energy sources.
Integral is often bathed in gamma-ray bursts, the death cries of massive stars that have burned up their fuel and exploded as a dramatic supernova, blasting high-energy radiation through the Solar System on a near-daily basis.
For more information and a short animation of ESA’s Integral mission, please click here.
Credits: ESA
Alexander Kumar at Concordia Base
15-10-2012 10:34 AM CEST
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Concordia is a joint French-Italian inland Antarctic research station run by the French Polar Institute and Italian Antarctic Programme. Every year it hosts a human research protocol coordinated by ESA and Concordia partners, supplied by universities and research institutions from across Europe.
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA – A. Kumar
Concordia Base
15-10-2012 10:34 AM CEST
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Concordia is a joint French-Italian inland Antarctic research station run by the French Polar Institute and Italian Antarctic Programme. Every year it hosts a human research protocol coordinated by ESA and Concordia partners, supplied by universities and research institutions from across Europe.
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA – A. Kumar
Alex Kumar and Sebastien Aubin
15-10-2012 10:34 AM CEST
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Sebastien Aubin and Alexander Kumar in Antarctica.
Concordia is a joint French-Italian inland Antarctic research station run by the French Polar Institute and Italian Antarctic Programme. Every year it hosts a human research protocol coordinated by ESA and Concordia partners, supplied by universities and research institutions from across Europe.
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA – A. Kumar
Concordia Base, Antarctica
15-10-2012 10:34 AM CEST
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"The richest man in the world couldn’t have bought our Antarctic sunset tonight…"
- A. Kumar
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA – A. Kumar
Sunset at Concordia
15-10-2012 10:34 AM CEST
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Concordia is a joint French-Italian inland Antarctic research station run by the French Polar Institute and Italian Antarctic Programme. Every year it hosts a human research protocol coordinated by ESA and Concordia partners, supplied by universities and research institutions from across Europe.
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA – A. Kumar
Soyuz flight VS03 liftoff
15-10-2012 10:19 AM CEST
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The third and fourth satellites of Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system were lofted into orbit on 12 October from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. They join the first pair of satellites launched a year ago to complete the validation phase of the Galileo programme.
The Soyuz ST-B launcher, operated by Arianespace, lifted off at 18:15 GMT (20:15 CEST) from the Guiana Space Centre.
All the stages of the Soyuz vehicle performed as planned and the Fregat-MT upper stage released the Galileo satellites into their targeted orbit at close to 23 200 km altitude, 3 hours 45 minutes after liftoff.
For more information, please click here.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG
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