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Steven Eales

Steven Eales

Professor of Astronomy at Cardiff University; astrophysicist and science communicator specializing in submillimetre astronomy and galaxy evolution, leading research on the Herschel Space Observatory and Herschel ATLAS survey.

Jun 19, 2026

speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
10:11
We'll have gorgeous images from the, uh, separation.
10:15
Um, okay.
10:17
So it was successful.
10:18
Launch was successful.
10:19
Um, but as I'll show later, there's a whole series of things that are gonna happen later that are also nerve-wracking, 'cause things can still go wrong.
10:29
So the rocket has not blown up.
10:32
But if you were the instrument, but if you're an instrument builder, your instrument has not blown up, but on the other hand, it hasn't worked yet.

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39:57
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