Since being demoted from planet to dwarf planet in 2006 we've actually discovered two new moons orbiting the icy sun satellite.

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During the eight days and 22 hours the mission is scheduled to run--eight days and 17 hours more than Glenn got last time--the astronauts will be kept busy releasing and retrieving a sun-sensing satellite, testing components for the Hubble Space Telescope, and conducting experiments in an onboard laboratory.

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The Esa operations team will then put the satellite into a slow drift around the Sun before ceasing all communications.

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"I'm proud we have entered the ranks of satellite powers, " office worker Hyun Day-sun said.

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Kelvin Mackenzie, who edited the Sun during the 1980s, says he's angered at the vista of satellite TV dishes on central London council estates.

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Among the challenges is modifying sensors designed to detect the heat from an incoming warhead so they can spot the much-cooler satellite, which has no heat source and is warmed only by the sun's rays.

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"Constantly we are monitoring weather forecasts to keep in line with the sun, plotting our route, examining wind, wave and current predictions, communicating with other vessels on the satellite phone, updating our blog and logging our positions, " he said.

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The researchers used data from the global network of solar monitoring telescopes (Gong) as well as the Soho satellite positioned in a stable orbit 1.6 million km (a million miles) closer to the Sun than the Earth.

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