After having spent this spring at Airbus defence and Space in Toulouse, France, where it was checked that it could withstand the vibration and noise liftoff and its ride into space, ESA’s next EarthExplorer mission, Aeolus, is now at the Centre Spatial de Liège, where it will be tested in a large chamber that has had all the air sucked out to simulate the vacuum of space. Aelous mission carries the state-of-the art Aladin laser instrument to profile the world’s winds.
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With liftoff on the horizon, ESA’s Aeolus satellite is going through its last round of tests to make sure that this complex mission will work in orbit. Over the next month, it is sitting in a large chamber that has had all the air sucked out to simulate the vacuum of space.
