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FMI / Earth Observation Website
This website will host research-related information about space-research related activites at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki.
This page is only maintained in English
For general information about related subjects also in Finnish and Swedish, please see the institute's homepage at http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi
Suomeksi: http://ilmatieteenlaitos.fi
På Svenska: http://sv.ilmatieteenlaits.fi
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory on its way to Mars
The launch of NASA's next major mission to Mars, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), now named "Curiosity", took place on Saturday, November 26, at 17:02 Finnish time. Satellite separation and injection into trajectory towards Mars was confirmed at 17:53. On January 11 a major course refinement maneuver was successfully performed putting the spacecraft on a more precise trajectory towards Mars. Arrival at the Gale Crater (coordinates 4.49S, 137.42E) is expected for August 6, 2012. FMI is contributing the pressure and humidity sensor to the environment package REMS. For details see FMI's MSL web page in Finnish with links to English-language Websites for REMS and NASA/MSL
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15.01.2012 19:45 Finnish Time The failed Russian Mars mission Phobos Grunt crashed into the South Pacific off the coast of Chile.
11.01.2012 Nasa refined successfully the MSL spacecraft's trajectory towards Mars- For details see NASA's MLS Web page.
26.11.2011 17:02 Finnish Time After re-scheduling the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) was launched from Florida on Saturday and should land on the Martian surface on August 6, 2012. FMI contributed the pressure- and humidity sensors of the REMS package. For details see FMI's MSL home page
08.06.2011 17:12 Finnish Time The ESA cometary research satellite ROSETTA entered hibernation. Expected wake-up: 20.01.2014. For details see the Rosetta web-page.
15.02.2011 06:40 Finnish Time The - re-used - Stardust spacecraft successfully passed Deep-Impact target comet Tempel-1. For details see the CIDA web-page
