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Latest news: STEREO successfully launched at 01:52 BST on 26th October.

Future launches

Take Off
Launch Mission RAL Involvement Main Objectives
May 2009
Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver
Sub-millimetre astronomy
May 2009
High Frequency Instrument and the Low Frequency Instrument

Cosmic microwave background

2009
Atmospheric Imaging Assembly and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager
Sun's influence on Earth and Near-Earth space
2009
Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget -3
Earth radiation budget
  Most recent launches
 
Launch Mission RAL Involvement Main Objectives
26th October 2006
Electronics, hardware, design, Instrument PI
Solar coronal observations

22/9/06

EIS

Investigating the solar corona

28/12/05 Galileo

RAL Ground Station, Chilbolton Observatory

Communication with the GIOVE A satellite, and in-orbit calibration

21/12/05

MSG-2

GERB1

Monitoring the Earth's radiation budget

09/11/05 Venus Express Aspera 4 Investigating the Venusian atmosphere
27/10/05 TopSat CCD Camera High resolution imaging
26/07/04

Double Star (Polar)

Payload operations Sun-Earth interaction
15/07/04 EOS-Aura HIRDLS, management, optics design Global temperature, atmosphere
02/03/04 Rosetta Management, system engineering, instrument development Cometary composition
29/12/03 Double Star (Equatorial) Payload operations Sun-Earth interaction
27/09/03 SMART-1 D-CIXS Technology development, lunar composition
  Upcoming events
 
Date Event Information

22nd October 2008

Chandrayaan-1 Launch
The Launch of India's first mission to the Moon.
For more information please see the C1XS Website

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