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YES2 mission control - DIMAC confirms the Foton attitude accuracy

YES2 has been supported through the whole project by a number of people and organisations. Even now, in orbit, we had some good help from the DIMAC team, which run another experiment on Foton-M3 and helped us understanding the attitude of Foton before our switch-on, during the free flight phase.
They just sent us their last information: according to their measurements the Nadir orientation of Foton is very accurate, so YES2 is really pointing nicely to the Earth, as planned. Thanks DIMAC!