Arianespace Ariane 5 Launch of Herschel and Planck

Sorry, I meant "shut down" and not "shot down", there....this should tell you how great my deception is...allez les gars chez CEA, mais c'est quoi ça on a attendu tout l'été pour entendre que HIFI ne marche pas?

Our future, huh? One of the main instruments onboard HIFI is signaling already a problem, it had to be shot down. I hope they will find a solution at CEA and I also hope that the other two instruments PACS an SPIRE will work fine, otherwise it's going to be the Beagle mission times 1000 in price for nothing. I was expecting Herschel and Planck to be the most important event for the year of astronomy 2009, as now the whole thing starts to become a suspense. My deception is great.

the reason why France contributes more than the others European country is military first of all but also of its long aicraft history which is a traditional sector has the France

entièrement d'accord.

alas hermes will come into the world, when every contributeurs countries has the ESA the needs of development ect will come to an agreement on financial provisions ...

problem being the vision of every European country where it has of the ESA

France need ESA for her military program of satellites of observation and nuclear strategical defence principaly and commercial launch for communication

UK, germany, italy, spain : need ESA just for commercial use

Hermès has been cancelled, that's a shame...

nice job esa, there is our future

And NASA IS THE FUTURE

are you sure ? an agency which goes down technologically speaking at the level of its devices space as of the shuttle to orion program ... don't sure is the future ...

at least the esa once knowledge a technology this agency does not look his at intended by the bottom by making less well that sound after the nasa however by leaving shuttles for orion is less well going to make that before

Great !
Glad Ariane 5 launched Herschel and Planck successfully.
What a month ! The Hubble repair mission and Herschel and Planck being sent to space, lets remember May 2009 :)