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Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

29 Oct 2015 12:29 Federal Institutions

Discovery of abundant oxygen in a comet by Rosetta

The renowned scientific journal Nature published a perplexing discovery on Thursday October 29th: the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has discovered – for the first time ever – the presence of oxygen gas O2 in the atmosphere of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Moreover, oxygen turns out to be a major component, constituting up to 10% of the comet atmosphere.

Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
09 Oct 2012 16:05 Federal Institutions

Belgian Operations Center gets the ISS rotated

For the very first time, the International Space Station (ISS) will be rotated for science objectives in December 2012. It was the Belgian Operations Center B.USOC that managed to get this scoop. B.USOC is responsible for the SOLAR platform, which is mounted on the exterior of the European Columbus Module. SOLAR carries three Sun observing instruments, of which one, SOLSPEC, was developed at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) in collaboration with the French LATMOS.

Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

Avenue Circulaire 3
1180 Brussels
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  • +32 2 373 04 04
http://www.aeronomie.be
Tim
Somers
Scientific communication NL
  • +32 2 373 67 35
tim.somers@aeronomie.be
Stéphanie
Fratta
Scientific communication FR
  • +32 2 373 04 49
stephanie.fratta@aeronomie.be

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