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Planck pre-launch status: The Planck mission

Description : The European Space Agency's Planck satellite, launched on 14 May 2009, is the third-generation space experiment in the field of cosmic microwave background (CMB) research. It will image the anisotropies of the CMB over the whole sky, with unprecedented sensitivity ( ~ 2 × 10-6) and angular resolutio...
Language(s) : English
Subject(s) : Cosmic microwave background , Space vehicles: instruments , Instrumentation: detectors , Instrumentation: polarimeters , Submillimeter: general , Radio continuum: general
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Source(s) : Astronomy & Astrophysics, 520, (1) , ISSN: 00046361
Publication Date(s) : 2010-11-29