Second MARSIS boom deployed, Foton-M2 returned to earth
Fri Jun 17, 2005 at 20:23 UTC
The second 20-metre antenna boom of the MARSIS instrument on board Mars Express was successfully - and smoothly - deployed, confirmed yesterday by the ground team at ESA's European Space Operations Centre. Read more.
The re-entry module of the Foton-M2 spacecraft, which has been in low-Earth orbit for the last 16 days made a successful landing yesterday in an uninhabited area 140 km south-east of the town of Kostanay in Kazakhstan, close to the Russian border at 09:37 Central European Time, 13:37 local time. Read more.
