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Dear SOHO Recovery Team member,
Attached please find a cross section of the numerous e-mails we have
received from the solar community
as well as the public, expressing
their gratefulness and admiration for your miraculous achievement.
Again my wholehearted thanks and best wishes!
Bernhard Fleck
PS: We have received many messages from the public from all over the world. To protect those who
may not want their e-mail and other personal information become available on the Web we have
removed personal info (name, e-mail etc) from the list below.
HI, just checking on SOHO data, wanted to say congrats to everybody again
for rescueing such a difficult situation. heckuva job. Y'all some hellacious
satellite pilots.
peace, n m
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SOHO's answer my friends
is blowin' in the solar wind
the answer's a 'lectric solar wind
(with deepest apologies to Bob Dylan)
Sorry, i just could'nt resist. :-)
n m Way to go on SOHO!!!
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CONGRATULATIONS on the recent reaquisition without gyroscopes! Another
first. I have learned so much from your website and from the NASA TV
shorts about the nature of our sun. I am particularly pleased with the
illustrations I saw of the solar wind flowing out of the honeycomb
network around the convection cells. Keep up the good work, and, until
we can replace it, take good care of the eyes that reveal so much to us
about the nature of our universe. Best wishes, and many thanks.
N W
H.A.M
Kirkland, WA
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Way to go getting SOHO back on line. Good job to all.
n m
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Luis CONGRATULATIONS for such a job well done. You have a marvelous
team that keep pulling the rabbit out of the magician's hat voila we are
getting pictures again!
What I really liked was watching the progress on the net with a one
minute up date, saying are they going to do all that? I was sitting on
the end of my chair in anticipation. Then you announce that all
manuvers succsessful HURRAY.
Congratulation from a little admirer
s w
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GRANDIOSO. FELICITACIONES DE NUEVO Y ADELANTE.
A S-I
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what can one say? congratulations,once again.
err...do you fix appliances?
just kidding
a soho fan
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Dear Sir:
I would personally like to thank you and your staff, for the great job
of service/maintenance you have been doing.
And, this is vindication for a 63 year old male, who was punished for
thinking about such things in the 40's and 50's. Ain't it great to be
part of this technology?
Congratulations to all who have worked so long and hard on this program!
I only wish I were young enough to start over and take part.
Sincerely,
J P J
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I can not forget this wonderful spacescraft . The Soho team saved it
one more time.
What a team! What a great job!
Congratulations to the team for me.
Cheers from the SUMER guy, =;)
NM.
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Mr. Fleck,
I am elated that SOHO's instruments have all passed the radical roll manuever
test. Everyone involved with the recovery of the spacecraft deserves hearty
applause. I am just a ham radio operator who has savored SOHO's imagery with
wide-eyed wonder and was inspired to feature hyperlinks to her home pages from
my home page. I am so glad to get my baby back again !
Thanksgiving Day Thanks,
J H. W KB4FOS
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I've been watching the progress of the recovery operation over the last few
months on the recovery update page.
Please pass on my regards and respect to the team. An outstanding
achievment.
Regards
A Q
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I can't tell you how excited I am to see SOHO fully recovered. I was
devasted when you lost contact with SOHO this summer and I have followed
your recovery efforts since then. I check out the latest images every
day and they are as great as they were before. KEEP UP THE FANTASTIC
WORK!
M C
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I have been following with great interest the saga of finding and
recovering SOHO. Great team work and what a learning experience.
I want to specially say thanks to you for letting us out here, those
not connected in anyway with the space program, to peer in and be part
of the action. It is a definite broadening of my experience as I gain
insight into the problems and routines of maintaining a space program
Thanks again.
B L
San Jose, CA
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From: L D
Subject: SOHO
I've been following the site for several months now (one of my favorites!!!
I was just devastated when contact was lost) and I am absolutely amazed at
the success of "recapturing" the craft and also that the instruments are
working again. Congratulations to everyone. "You-All" have done a SUPERB
job!!!!!!!!!!
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Seeing your last entry on the SOHO recovery page and as an
astronomy-buff, I just wanted to say "Thanks" for keeping the Internet
informed of the satellite's amazing day-by-day restoration. An even
bigger "Thanks" has to go to the engineers and scientists who restored
it to health. I look forward to seeing more spectacular images (it is
the only thing I can appreciate! :) from SOHO as the Solar Maximum
approaches.
Regards,
M O
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If you're responsible for the daily SOHO recovery updates, thanks so
much for the series.
I've logged-in almost every day to follow the recovery, which was some
of the best science I've seen in a long time. What great drama!
I deeply appreciate the work that's gone into the summaries. It was
fun. Now...back to probing the secrets of the universe!
K
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Thank you for providing these daily reports - as they kept me on
tenterhooks I hate to think what your team, with their investment in
that little mote out in space, was going through.
Best wishes
M A
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Bernhard,
I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for all of the work you've done
on the Recovery Updates web page. I have followed the SOHO reacquisition
and recommissioning drama every day for months now and I am mightily
impressed with everyone's hard work, innovation and dedication. Thanks
again for providing all of this information. There are a lot of us out here
who have enjoyed following this real-life success story.
J C
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What you guys have accomplished with the SOHO recovery is nothing short
of fantastic. Putting together a web page of day by day summaries is
great for the many of us who want more than the sanitized version by
the media. Thanx for the information. I wish this was done by the
other ongoing missions.
K, G A
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Bernhard
Many thanks for your daily updates on the SOHO recovery progress. Just
enough detail to keep me interested and not so much that I was
baffled.
I'll have to remove the bookmark now and find something else to do with
the spare 10 minutes.
Thanks again, and good luck with the rest of the project!
J B
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Sir: I and some friends are avid amateur solar observers using both
white light and h-alpha filters. We wish to congratulate your team for
the successful recovery of SOHO and to let you know that there are a
lot of us out there who care a great deal about this and similar
missions. We also appreciated the updates on the SOHO website.
I look forward to some more spectacular images!
J M
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Yes - it is a real credit to all and a wonderful demonstration of
Europe/US working together. I am left amazed and extremely heartened
by it all. Thank you and the team for being so public about the
failures and successes.
Yours
John.
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Your magnificient success and candorous postings have re-energized my
interest in the man component of space exploration. It truly is man who
controls this manifest destiny as your marvelous team has so
courageously shown all of us. Thank you again for the great drama -
perhaps the internet's best moment to date.
Incidently, I think you guys either assisted or certainly motivated the
president's success last night. (I got a great thrill with your
acknowledgement of my kudos message)
WOW !! You guys are good.
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Bernhard, on behalf of all us folks who've been sitting around
quietly listening to your status reports, crossing our fingers, and
then cheering wildly as appropriate, I would like to thank you,
the Recovery Team, Missions Operations people, and everyone else
who dedicated their skills, talents, intellect, and time to pull
this miracle off. Congratulations -- and thank you!!!!
Deborah K. S.
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Keep up the good work!! I believe we should have more sites like this
available to the public, to help encourage people to get involved and learn
more about space
G W
N P,Ak USA
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Bravo, bravo !!!!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, für Eure "grossartige Leistung", dass Ihr SOHO
wieder zurückholen konntet. Was soll ich sagen: Es ist einfach
wunderbar !! Ich bin glücklich und danke Euch allen. Congratulation !!
Viele Grüsse
von John (Hans)
H R
Flumenthal,Switzerland
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Keep up the good work on the instruments recovery
Regards Steve
S A
Hayling Island,UK - Wednesday, October 21, 1998 at 18:57:58 (EDT)
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I have been watching events unfold almost daily since the signal loss. From
the very first you have been optimistic that the spacecraft could be
recovered, and it has been wonderful to watch things work out as you had
hoped. Congratulations to the whole team, who I'm sure are simply delighted
to be operational again.
R F
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Joe:
I browsed past the EIT page, and something looked amiss. At first I
thought it was a hoax. During the first full-res download I thought I had
gone mad. I sat here in a daze for thirty minutes until it dawned on me to
go find the news page. I was afraid to belive it.......
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND ALL THE TEAM! I promise to download every image
and savor every one like a truffle. I will never take you folks for
granted again.
Your most ardent supporter,
L.
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Jeannie:
Congratulations to Joe and the team.
B
GSFC Education Office
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What a sight that is, even if it is an EIT image, not CDS!
I never thought I'd be so pleased to see an old friend.
Only wish I could be there to see those smiling, happy faces.
Well done, fantastic. SMM was given a second breath
of life, now it seems that SOHO has been been aswell.
Amazing, Helen.
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Hi Berhard,
I don't know if you're taking what amounts to fan mail, but great job!
I've followed the SOHO situation since it first occurred through NASA's
press releases. It's been fascinating. You have all done a great job to
get it back on line.
The whole thing has made me want to look for a job in satellite
construction - it sounds like a buzz!
Cheers,
M S
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Hello,
Congratulations. Thank You. I am in tears. This project is incredible.
Thank you.
Please tell all the people involved in the recovery and original launch
efforts thank you.
I have watched and waited these last three months.
C C
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So delighted to see you publish the e-mails. Also it is wonderful to
see the support from so many who are far away from the actual work
the ESA/NASA and others are doing to recover SOHO. It is something
that cheers the heart, because ordinary people are involved with
the mission, even if only via their telephone line and the web.
Being brave enough to put the information as it happens on the web
is great. It will help champion the scientific cause and widen
awareness. As a systems programmer often working remote from my
machines, I understand some of the problems, especially when
communications go down in the middle of a delicate operation!
Mistakes and cocks, yes I seen and done those to. So I raise a glass
to all who sat down after the mistakes, who were honest and frank
about the errors and then worked their backsides off to recover the
mission. Well done!!!
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Yours John.
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Bernhard
Congratulations to you and the team! It was a fantastic effort and you
should all be very proud. The recovery has been inspirational.
As a project manager I followed the recovery efforts and reports with a
great deal of interest. It was interesting to see the similarities and
differences in the SOHO project and my own. I've learnt from your
experiences.
The last line on your update for 13th was a nice touch :)
S H
Sydney Australia
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DE NUEVO UN GUGOL DE FELICITACIONES A TODO EL EQUIPO POR LA EXITOSA
RECUPERACION DE SOHO Y SU VUELTA EN OPERACION.
A S-I
Estacion de Observacion Solar, EOS.
Area de Astronomia / CIF-US
Universidad de Sonora
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Congratulations on the recovery of SOHO!
Well done!
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T E
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Dear Dr. SOHO,
We at Galaxies Astronomy Club would like to welcome back SOHO.
We all missed you and the outstanding Images and Data that you have
given us.
Thanks to a the Team at ESO and NASA we can look forward to seeing the
Sun through your eyes.
Good seeing,
T B
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Hello again,
Every few days I check the web site and see that things are coming along
very nicely. Again, congratulations!
I am curious about something, though - do any members of the recovery team
plan to publish a "lessons learned" report, perhaps giving advice to
operators faced with similar circumstances, and maybe even to suggest
spacecraft design features which could make recovery easier? Were there
any fail-safe gizmos on SOHO where the team was saying "Boy, it's a good
thing we designed *that* into the spacecraft!"?
Cheers,
G W
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No need to respond, but you all need to know that SOHO has a great
many fans who have delighted in the great scientific return, and who
will continue to give talks about, and teach about, the amazing
engineering that has gone into the construction of spacecraft.
Please take great pride in what you have done. I will tell
my classes and various other groups about these accomplishments.
J K
Prof. of Astronomy
U. of Illinois
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Hi there.
I've been watching the developing events since the loss of the
spacecraft with some interest, and I'm just dropping you this mail to
say congratulations on locating it again - a task, which I can imagine
has been tense, and very difficult.
Hopefully the fault will be rectafiable, and I look forward to seeing
some more beautiful images in the near future.
Once again, good luck - and keep up the excellent work - it's all
serving to make at least one interested amateur happy.
Cheers!
Dan
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
T l!!!
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SOHO-GO TEAM GO !!!!! I've been watching for some time.
S and A P
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Greetings from ESOC,
just to let you know that I and a number of my colleagues are following
your daily SOHO reports with interest. It's good to see what is happening
over there.
keep up the good work,
L
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Hello Mr. Fleck,
I have been watching this drama concerning SOHO daily.
Good luck on the attitude recovery.
G B
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Thank your team for these recovery updates. Many of us are watching and wishing you the
best.
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D B
Houston, TX
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BRAVO !!
Congratulations and thanks to all !!
Et champagne pour tout le monde!
j-c
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Please give our congratulations to all there and our thanks
to the recovery team.
P
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FELICITATIONS!!
There are a lot of happy people here as well!
A
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> SOHO just reaquired the Sun!
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Oh SOHO did look at the sun
Until a procedure was run
That caused it to spin
Much to NASA's chagrin
And they thought all the science was done
But soon all the scientists saw
That by waiting, the fuel they could thaw
Then they saw that they must
Give a small burst of thrust
And they got back the sun: Newton's law!
Steve J.
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CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!!!!!!
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Hallo, Bernhard,
das habt Ihr ja fein gemacht. Wir LASCOten gratulieren und wuenschen
Euch weiterhin ein glueckliches Haendchen. Wenn jetzt auch noch von den
Instrumenten was funktioniert! Vielleicht musst Du ja Dein Haeuschen
doch nicht gleich wieder verkaufen...
Wir bleiben dran!
Beste Gruesse, auch an die anderen Beteiligten,
v R und der Lindauer LASCO-Truppe
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An: B. Fleck
Lieber Herr Fleck,
ich moechte Sie bitten, der "Wiederfindungs"-Gruppe die Glueckwuensche
der SUMER-Experimentaroren zu uebermitteln. Es klingt fast unglaublich,
dass die Sonne wieder von vorn scheinen soll. Wir sehen den naechsten
Entwicklungen mit Spannung entgegen.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen
K W
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Dear All,
On behalf of the entire CDS team I would like to thank everyone who played
a part in the miraculous recovery of SOHO. I know we are not out of the
woods yet but many people had written SOHO off and it looks as though we
actually have a mission on our hands again!
Thanks for the superb effort.
R H
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Hi there - just a quick message from the UK (Again!)
Congratulations!
I've been away for 2 weeks. Came back to work, and checked the site,
and a flood of good news awaited.
Marvelous. :)
Dan
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Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
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AND it IS wonderful news!! Congratulations and best regards to all of
you for this magnificent achievement, and best wishes for what lies
ahead
J L
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Dear Dr. Sanchez,
We are really congratulate by the news about SOHO recovery. Many, many
congratulations to all the team who made this effort.
A S-I
Universidad de Sonora
Hermosillo Sonora, Mexico
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As an interested member of the public this is just a short note to
congratulate the SOHO team on recovering contact with and control of the
spacecraft, and to the Web team for providing up to date information that is
not generally available in media.
No doubt I was one of many who kept my fingers crossed through yesterday as
the updates on the recovery process came through on the Web.
I look forward to seeing SOHO return to full operation.
Best wishes all
D H
Birmingham, UK
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Bernard,
Congratulations on a fantastic show yesterday. The web interface
allowed the whole world to watch. The precision that this was carried
off with was truly exciting. It allowed those that couldn't be at the
EOF a feeling that they were part of the SOHO team.
I felt that I was watching a miracle. Please pass on to the Francis
and the rest of the recovery team our expression of thanks for the
effort that they have put in over the last months. They have indeed
performed admirably and at great personal hardship. The final outcome
we hope will be as impressive as this very auspicious beginning.
Warm regards,
R H
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Congradulations on going so far with the recovery of SOHO!
My hat is off to the superb teams from ESA and NASA that
accomplished this ESR (sun reacquisition without gyros)!!!!!
They and the relentless efforts of the DSN and many others
are THE HEROS of this effort.
Again congradulations and wishes for continued good luck.
A K
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Dear Mr. Fleck...
(Or is it Dr. Fleck?)
I may be just a member of the general public, but I pay attention to NASA
news-- I've always been a staunch supporter of the space program and all
of NASA's scientific missions.
I'm aware of the important scientific discoveries in which SOHO has been
instrumental, and the value of the solar activity alerts it affords. It's
a great project that deserves all the support it can get.
I just wanted to say "congratulations" and, though I know that your
team's renewed excitement is plenty of fuel for your efforts, I wanted to
give you my encouragement for continued success in bringing SOHO back up
to operational strength. If it's not inconvenient, please let your team
know that their efforts are appreciated!
Way to go!
Yours,
...B
B W
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Wahooo!!!!! Go Go So Ho!!!!!!!!!
S and A P
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It is so exciting to follow your progress in restoring SOHO. I am not a
scientist, but every day I used to look at the SOHO pictures and admired the
beauty of our Sun. When SOHO experienced it's troubles I felt like I lost a
member of my family. Now it is so wonderful to see you restore it to life!
I can't wait for the first pictures!
J Z
Engineer at Apple Computer
California, USA
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Great kudos for a job well done. Check with clinton, I think he needs you guys
now.
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BRAVO!!!
Jerry
summer98 intern
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Bernhard Fleck