On Thursday 30 April, the
Royal Aeronautical Society will be presenting a free evening lecture by
Dr David Southwood, the European Space Agency's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration. The subject of his talk will be the upcoming joint launch of the
Herschel and
Planck missions. Herschel is the largest space telescope ever to be built and a great European technical achievement. It will observe the universe in the
far-infrared, a spectral region obscured from Earth by the atmosphere.
The Planck spacecraft will observe the 'Cosmic Microwave Background' radiation with a sensitivity, angular resolution and frequency range never achieved before. Both satellites will operate at the gravitationally neutral L2 point 1.5 million kms from Earth. For more information, click here.
On Thursday 30 April, the Royal Aeronautical Society will be presenting a free evening lecture by Dr David Southwood, the European Space Agency's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration. The subject of his talk will be the upcoming joint launch of the Herschel and Planck missions. Herschel is the largest space telescope ever to be built and a great European technical achievement. It will observe the universe in the far-infrared, a spectral region obscured from Earth by the atmosphere. The Planck spacecraft will observe the 'Cosmic Microwave Background' radiation with a sensitivity, angular resolution and frequency range never achieved before. Both satellites will operate at the gravitationally neutral L2 point 1.5 million kms from Earth. For more information, click here.
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