Tuesday 30 January, attitude data calculated by the instrument were used for the 1st time to finely control the satellite bus and achieve perfect boresight stability.
Climate - Calipso science data now available to scientists worldwide
Titan’s north pole is surrounded by lakes
16 january 2007
It would appear that Earth is no longer the only planet in the solar system with liquid on its surface. Radar imagery obtained by the Cassini spacecraft on its flyby of Titan on 22 July 2006 provides evidence that the Saturnian moon’s north pole is surrounded by numerous lakes.
Tech for Food
12 January 2007
An international forum for new technologies and the fight against hunger
Among its many goals, the United Nations aims to reduce by half the proportion of the world’s population suffering from hunger between 1990 and 2015.
A studious start to the year for COROT
10 January 2007
Since COROT was powered up on 2 January, work has begun to calibrate its light sensors. The sensor calibration process, which paradoxically takes place in total darkness, is designed to check the detector arrays pixel by pixel.