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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
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SLR Electronic Mail 2010-09-24 09:04:00 UTC Message No. 1914
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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

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