Planck’s results makes Tessella
The first scientific results from ESA’s Planck mission were released at a press briefing on Tuesday 11 January in Paris (http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMK4D3SNIG_index_0.html) and the latest results of the Planck telescope images presented at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. Physics World have recently published an article detailing the success of this project, which can be accessed more visit http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/44757.
Tessella are immensely proud to have been part of the consortium, which included Dutch Space and SENER, in this exciting project. The consortium developed the system that controls the orientation and orbit of Planck. Tessella were responsible for the sensor and actuator simulation models, vital to understanding and testing the behaviour of Planck before launch; and the Pointing Error Budget, a statistical analysis of this spinning spacecraft taking into account all the factors that could affect Planck’s ability to point with phenomenal accuracy, essential to providing high quality scientific data.
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