| Date: | 2003-05-14 08:55:00 | |
| Sender: | NERC Space Geodesy Facility team <slrmail@dgfi.badw-muenchen.de> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1087: Herstmonceux SLR system - update | |
| Author: | NERC Space Geodesy Facility team | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2003-05-14 08:55:00 UTC Message No. 1087 ******************************************************************************** Author: NERC Space Geodesy Facility team Subject: Herstmonceux SLR system - update ILRS colleagues. We regret the long period of downtime currently being suffered by the SLR system of the space geodesy facility, Herstmonceux; the last pass taken at Herstmonceux was on 11th April 2003. This is by far the longest gap in our tracking since becoming operational nearly 20 years ago. It was caused by a series of system failures, the most damaging being a fault in the telescope encoder system. A recovery programme has been proceeding well and we are confident that we will begin regular operations in the very near future; we look forward to resuming our service to the ILRS. Regards, The NERC SGF Team. 13 May 2003 From: slrmail@dgfi.badw-muenchen.de From: Graham Appleby ******************************************************************************** |