ANTONOV Airways in cooperation with Ceva Logistics delivered the 40-tonne cargo including the container with satellite and extra equipment from Cologne-Bonn, Germany to Titusville, USA.
The container became as soon as loaded onto the airplane the utilization of the back ramp and onboard cranes, which made it imaginable no longer to use extra ground equipment. On the same time, the relief of the cargo became as soon as loaded into the airplane by blueprint of the entrance ramp. The technical characteristics of the airplane enable it to total the onloading and offloading in the time-effective body.
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The special spacecraft “Hera”, developed by the European Put apart Company for its dwelling safety program, became as soon as safely delivered to the NASA shuttle launch and landing facility. Earlier this month the spacecraft became as soon as launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch automobile and might perhaps well occupy to search for the results of the DART impactor, four years after impact.
“Hera” has a mass of 1,128 kgs (2,487 lbs) and carries a payload of cameras, an altimeter, and a spectrometer. It’s a long way carrying two little CubeSat spacecraft, called Milani and Juventas.
Hera is supposed to completely portray the composition and physical properties of the binary asteroid gadget including, for the fundamental time, the sub-surface and within structures. This might perhaps well well also furthermore invent technological demonstrations linked to operations in the vicinity of a little Solar Arrangement body and the deployment of and communication with CubeSats in interplanetary dwelling.
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“Referring to your provider. Your crew conducted very well! They were sharp and knew what to attain. Excessive class work! If truth be told preferred. In particular the cooperation/communication with Eugene Kiva, the Flight Manager, became as soon as very correct”, commented Alexander Rosenthal, Aerospace Particular Initiatives Coordinator – Ceva Logistics.
“That became as soon as an noteworthy and remarkable abilities. The satellite, being a highly soft cargo, must had been carried with vulgar warning. Our crew must occupy kept the relevant stages of temperatures, G-forces and other cases all by blueprint of the flight for tender birth. We also needed to manipulate the suitable satellite parameters on the bottom in each and every airport on the route, repeatedly.
Both the flight crew and technical crew cooperation concluded into a winning mission. We’re proud to be a phase of this venture, which will possible be one of the important steps of discovering the Universe and its secrets and tactics and getting life-saving data for future generations”, said Eugene Kiva, Flight Manager, ANTONOV Airways.
