After a software patch on a redundant system, overnight on the Indian coast, esa -- along with 14 member states -- launched the solar corona study mission called Proba-3.
Over the next couple of days, the two spacecraft will fly "uphill" -- to a higher orbit, and then separate by about 150 meters, using lasers to position each other to within tenths of a millimeter exactitude, before opening the lens that will image the solar corona. Again, this is proof that while NASA is great -- neither Musk nor Trump should think of space as an "America First" political endeavor. Not now, and not since about the mid-1980s, in fact.
In any event, here's the latest, from esa's HQ, in Paris:
. . .Fourteen ESA Member States including Canada came together on this mission, set to demonstrate game-changing European technology in the areas of autonomous operations and precision manoeuvring by delivering never-before-seen science results.
Proba-3 lifted off on a four-stage PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Thursday, 5 December, at 11:34 CET (10:34 GMT, 16:04 local time). Stacked together, the two satellites separated from their upper stage about 18 minutes after launch.
The pair will remain attached together while initial commissioning takes place, overseen from mission control at the European Space Security and Education Centre, ESEC, in Redu, Belgium. . . .
[Updated -- 12.09.2024 @ Noon: The guy is in custody; used a ghost gun. Damn.] We don't want to get too far out over our skis here -- but that sounds like someone was angry about the health insurance company's lawyers' aggressive claims-, and litigation- tactics -- in denying coverage, to people who'd paid premiums for years. It is all very sad, and I expect that this is/was a very mentally troubled individual. But two children will grow up without their father; and a widow will never be able to understand the hole in her life, now. Ugh. I've literally nothing more. . . on that.
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