| Date: | 2010-09-24 09:04:00 | |
| Sender: | Chris Reigber, Rolf Koenig <Rolf Koenig <rolf.koenig@gfz-potsdam.de>> | |
| Subject: | [SLR-Mail] No. 1914: CHAMP End of Mission | |
| Author: | Chris Reigber, Rolf Koenig | |
| Content: | ******************************************************************************** SLR Electronic Mail 2010-09-24 09:04:00 UTC Message No. 1914 ******************************************************************************** Author: Chris Reigber, Rolf Koenig Subject: CHAMP End of Mission Dear colleagues, after 3718 days in orbit the CHAMP spacecraft re-entered on Sun- day, Sept.19, around midday over the Sea of Okhotsk. The last ra- dio contact was established on the same day at 08:26 UT over the German ground station Weilheim at an altitude of only 150 km. This marks the end of a geoscience mission, which exceeded the expectations by far. With CHAMP almost continuous observation series over an unprecedented long time period have been generated for the Earth gravity field, the magnetic field and the atmo- sphere. Modeling activities were and will continue to be largely dependent on the high quality POD/OCC results as obtained with the BlackJack SGPS- and the SLR- observations for CHAMP. The CHAMP mission team wants to express its sincere thanks to both the ILRS and the IGS for the tremendous support all their service entities , in particular the station crews, have provided for the CHAMP mission, a mission covering the full ”Decade for Geopoten- tials”. Many thanks again Chris Reigber Rolf Koenig From: Rolf Koenig ******************************************************************************** |