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STRAPLEX ready for next flight |
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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The next STRAPLEX flight is schedule for Saturday 24th March, at 3:00 AM UTC, from the Canary Islands. In this tethered mission proposed by ESA, STRAPLEX will carry a set of retroreflectors for the MORE Project. Several experiments with the Optical Ground Station (OGS) Telescope in Tenerife will then be performed during the flight. The capsule is ready for the trip to La Palma where it will be integrated with ESA's payload. A backup capsule was also developed.
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