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On 11 June, engineers at OHB’s facilities in Germany joined together the two main parts of ESA’s Plato mission.
They used a special crane to lift Plato’s payload module, housing its 26 ultra-sensitive cameras, into the air and carefully line it up over the service module. The supporting service module contains everything else that the spacecraft needs to function, including subsystems for power, propulsion and communication with Earth.
With millimetre-level precision, the engineers gently lowered the payload module into place. Once perfectly positioned, the team tested the electrical connections.
Finally, they securely closed a panel that connects the payload module to the service module both physically and electronically (seen ‘hanging’ horizontally above the service module in this image). This panel, which opens and closes with hinges, also contains the electronics to process data from the cameras.
Now in one piece, Plato is one step closer to beginning its hunt for Earth-like planets.
In the coming weeks, the spacecraft will undergo tests to ensure its cameras and data processing systems still work perfectly.
Then it will be driven from OHB’s cleanrooms to ESA’s technical heart (ESTEC) in the Netherlands. At ESTEC, engineers will complete the spacecraft by fitting it with a combined sunshield and solar panel module.
Following a series of essential tests to confirm that Plato is fit for launch and ready to work in space, it will be shipped to Europe’s launch site in French Guiana.
The mission is scheduled to launch on an Ariane 6 in December 2026.
ESA’s Plato (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) will use 26 cameras to study terrestrial exoplanets in orbits up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars.
Plato's scientific instrumentation, consisting of the cameras and electronic units, is provided through a collaboration between ESA and the Plato Mission Consortium. This Consortium is composed of various European research centres, institutes and industries, led by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The spacecraft is being built and assembled by the industrial Plato Core Team led by OHB together with Thales Alenia Space and Beyond Gravity.
[Image description: A cleanroom environment where engineers are working on assembling spacecraft components. A large, gold-foil-wrapped module is being carefully lowered by a crane onto another section of a spacecraft positioned below it. The scene includes people in cleanroom suits, specialised lifting equipment, and various technical apparatus, highlighting the precision and care required in aerospace engineering.]
Credits: ESA – M. Pédoussaut
Lamps made of old Chinese biscuit tins. These tins are around 30 years old.
The lamp has a touch sensitive switch. You can switch it on/off and change between three different dimming levels by just touching the lamp. These lamps look very nice with Edison bulbs (carbon filament bulb).
Terimalah dengan penuh kerelaan apa yang Allah berikan kepada kita,
nescaya kita menjadi manusia yang paling kaya.
The Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio is light sensitive...even to candle-light!
The light seems to put out ultra-low frequencies below audible range.
By raising the pitch very high in the Audio Hijack software, these sounds can be heard in the audible range!
Oh, oh, oh...
Can't you see i'm highly sensitive?
Oh, oh, oh...
I even bougth some books about it...
Oh, oh, oh...
When i see it going on again
Oh, oh, oh...
I don't want to argue
Because i'm not that strong.
This plant's leaves close when touched
For information about this Plant:
www.business.qld.gov.au/industry/agriculture/species/inva...
I was looking for Odonates in the Sensitive Ferns and spotted a little ball of spiderlings. I watched them for some time and they clambered about inside the safety of their fern nursery.
Early May. Sensitive Ferns were named because pioneers observed the ferns' tendency to die with the first frost. I've found them to be a hardy fern, easily spreading and crowding out other ferns. For me, the name seems more appropriate for its springtime unfurling.
Ringrazio Alfredo per la disponibilità e la paziena a cui dedico questo scatto.
For this shot i used:
-Nikon D300
-Tokina 16-50mm f2.8
-Nikon SB900 Strobe
-Nikon SB600 Strobe
There was two different light, one trough an umbrella just beside the subject and the other one the right to light the face and the tree.
FedEX package with sensitive computer part arrived this way. Inset on one photo shows an industrial strength tack poked through the bottom fo the package. I didn't feel like using up a whole photo for one tack; so I made it an inset.
BTW, this is not an indictment of FedEx on the whole. I have been happy with their service many times, but this wasn't one of them. Repairman is supposed to repair the part tomorrow. I'm going to let him open the package. Hope it is OK. Maybe it is in the center of the package and has some bubble wrap around it.
UPDATE & SURPRISE ENDING the next day after I posted this.
The repairman took the part out of the box and it was sufficiently protected. However, it was the WRONG part. Eeegads!
4642smallfedexboxbigdisappointmentinit)