Key milestones

2014 events

11/20/2014: Integral mission extension to December 2016 confirmed by ESA's Science Programme Committee.

2013 events

06/19/2013: Mission extension to December 2016 subject to mid-term confirmation in late 2014.

2010 events

11/19/2010: Mission extension to December 2014 subject to a mid-term review in 2012.

2009 events

10/02/2009: Mission extension to December 2012 subject to a mid-term review in 2010.

2006 events

07/27/2006: Mission extended to December 2010.

2003 events

05/19/2003: Mission Performances Verification Review

2002 events

12/13/2002: Mission Commissioning Result Review

11/25/2002: In-orbit functional tests and tuning successfully completed.

10/17/2002: Integral successfully launched

10/10/2002 : Integral mated with proton launcher

2001 events

05/31/2001 : The SPI Team after delivery.

05/09/2001 : SPI Flight Model delivered to Alenia Spazio (Italy).

02/04-05/04/2001 : Calibration tests at CEA/Bruyère Le Châtel.

08/03-03/28/2001 : Thermal vacuum functional tests at Fourier/Intespace, Toulouse.

02/12-02/26/2001 : EMC tests at Coulomb/Intespace, Toulouse.

01/29/2001 : Integration of SPI Flight Model MLI.

01/25/2001 : Integration of Flight Model SPICO/Active Cooling.

2000 events

11/10/2000 : Integration of Flight Model MASK.

08/21-10/31/2000 : Integration of Flight Model CAMERA.

08/16/2000 : Integration of Flight Model PSAC.

07/20/2000 : Integration of Flight Model ACS on the lower structure (LSA). ST Model ACS replaced by Flight Model ACS.

07/17/2000 : Reception of Flight Model Anti-Coincidence (ACS). Two main parts make up the ACS: the UVS and LVS.

07/2000 : Electrical integration of Flight Model AFEE1 and AFEE2.

06/29/2000 : Reception of Flight Model AFEE1.

06/20/2000 : Reception of Flight Model AFFE2.

05/17/2000 : Electrical integration of Flight Model PSD.

05/03/2000 : Reception of Flight Model PSD.

04/21/2000 : Reception of the first Flight Model Electronic Box : DFEE.

02/2000 : Integration of Flight Model harness.

1999 events

10/07/1999: S/C ICDR

Summer 1999 : SPI EM

• S/C level tests completed.
• S/C EM back at CNES.
• SPI EM hardware being upgraded for better flight model representability.
• SPI EM software being upgraded for full service implementation.

05/04-05/05/1999: SPI Critical Design Review (CDR) (documentation available)

03/30-03/31/1999: SPI EM delivered to Alenia Spazio. Thermal tests on STM camera and SPI STM successfully performed.